Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (P.S.)

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On September 1 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley Minnesota trapping more than two thousand people. The fire created its own weather including hurricane-strength winds bubbles of plasma-like glowing gas and 200-foot-tall flames. As temperatures reached 1 600 degrees Fahrenheit the firestorm knocked down buildings and carried flaming debris high into the sky. Two trainsone with every single car on firebecame the only means of escape. In all more than four hundred people would die leading to a revolution in forestry management and the birth of federal agencies that monitor and fight wildfires. A spellbinding account of danger devastation and courage Under a Flaming Sky reveals the dramatic minute-by-minute story of the tragedy and brings into focus the ordinary citizens whose lives it irrevocably marked.