blowup

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This week’s firestorms have drawn comparisons to the Big Blowup of 1910, a wind-driven conflagration in the northern Rockies that also followed a very dry season.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2020

US forest ranger Ed Pulaski was caught right in the middle of what would become known as the "Big Blowup" - also known as The Great Fire of 1910.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2019

Aside from nearly knocking the men off their horses, the gales caused isolated blazes to combine, yielding a single giant conflagration that would come to be known as the Big Blowup.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2017

The devastation of the Big Blowup, much of which reportedly took place in just 36 hours, cemented the idea of fighting fires aggressively and immediately.

From Slate • Aug. 30, 2012

Mutated by radiation, speeded up in their evolution by the effects of the Blowup, Earthmen were as far ahead of us mentally as we were ahead of them technologically.

From Noble Redman by Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin)