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unusual facts about Wildfire


Wilfrid Emmett Doyle

Doyle then did work in the Diocese of Kamloops before moving in 2001 to St. Elizabeth Seton House of Prayer in Kelowna, which he had established during his tenure as Bishop and where he and others were later forced to evacuate when forest fires threatened to consume the residence.


2012 Catalan independence demonstration

Then, the town Capmany—symbolising the "fight against fire" after its comarca of Alt Empordà suffered a serious wildfire this summer—delivered the Catalan flag to President Artur Mas.

2012 Colorado wildfires

Starting Monday, June 25, 2012, this grassland fire, in and near the small towns of Last Chance and Woodrow in Washington County, burned over 45,000 acres, making it the second largest wildfire by acreage in Colorado in the year 2012 to date, after the High Park fire.

Audrey Chapman

She was among the cast of Wildfire (1921), based on a Zane Grey novel.

Black Forest Fire

In the early afternoon hours of Tuesday, June 11, 2013, beginning before 2:00 p.m. MDT, reports of a wildfire in the Black Forest area reached 9-1-1 dispatchers.

Charlotte Salt

She has appeared in Born and Bred in the UK and Entourage, CSI Season 6 Episode 13: Kiss-Kiss, Bye-Bye as Eve Girard, and Wildfire.

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer

On 18 July 2002, one such refitted PB4Y, BuNo 66260 (seen in picture to right) operated by Hawkins and Powers Aviation of Greybull Wyoming, broke up in flight while fighting a wildfire near Rocky Mountain National Park.

Dervenochoria

Most of Dervenochoria was hit by a devastating wildfire (see 2007 Greek forest fires) on Thursday June 28, 2007 that came from Parnitha westward.

Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport

In addition to scheduled commercial service, numerous small air charter operators and bush pilots use the airport and it serves as a major base for water bombers used in forest firefighting operations.

Fárbauti

If, as according to Axel Kock, Fárbauti as "dangerous striker" refers to "lightning", the figure would appear to be part of an early nature myth alluding to wildfire (Loki) being produced by lightning (Fárbauti) striking dry tinder such as leaves (Laufey) or pine needles (Nál).

Henri Grissino-Mayer

His dissertation research was conducted at El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico where he reconstructed precipitation and wildfire activity for the last 2,000 years.

Michael Brooker

There he worked on Wedge-tailed Eagles, fauna surveys, the environmental impact of wildfire and the conservation value of remnant patches of native vegetation .

Mount Vision fire

The Mount Vision fire was a wildfire that burned for 4 days in October, 1995 on the Point Reyes peninsula in northern California.

Nicole Tubiola

She married Wildfire co-star, actor Kieren Hutchison on August 10, 2003, and on September 5, 2007, she gave birth to a baby boy named Quinn.

Plateau des Tourbières

The lower-lying areas of the island were mainly covered by a woodland of Phylica arborea trees mixed with ferns before the vegetation was devastated by a combination of wood-cutting, anthropogenic wildfire and grazing by feral cattle, and became replaced by exotic grassland.

Remote Automated Weather Station

The Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) system is a network of weather stations run by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management and monitored by the National Interagency Fire Center, mainly to observe potential wildfire conditions.

Serrano people

One such encampment was accidentally unearthed by the U.S. Forest Service fighting a wildfire in 2003 near Baldwin Lake.

Shawn Piller

In 2005, Wildfire debuted on the ABC Family channel, starring Deep Space Nine's Nana Visitor.

Stones Grow Her Name

Pekka Kuusisto - violin at "Don't Be Mean", "Cinderblox", "Wildfire, Part:II - One with the Mountain" and "Wildfire, Part:III - Wildfire Town, Population: 0"

Tyrion Lannister

While becoming strongly at odds with his sister and the king, he masterminds the defence of King's Landing against Stannis Baratheon's naval attack with a massive chain boom and ships filled with the Greek fire-like wildfire.

Wilderness area

Activities on the margins of specific wilderness areas, such as fire suppression and the interruption of animal migration also affect the interior of wildernesses.

Wildfire at Midnight

Wildfire at Midnight is a novel by Mary Stewart, first published in 1956.

Wildfire Wildfire

The Wildfire Wildfire project was founded in 2005 by Devon Deimler and Matthew Papich while students at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.

Woodill Wildfire

The Woodill Wildfire was an American sports car built by Dodge and Willys dealer Blanchard Robert "Woody" Woodill from 1952 to 1958 in Downey, California.

In September 2012 a Woodill Wildfire was featured on the Discovery Channel TV show Fast N' Loud.

Zaca

The Zaca Fire, the second largest wildfire in modern California history.


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