Some eyewitnesses have called it a "hurricane of fire", one of the most devastating series of brushfires ever. On October 8, 1871, cataclysmic wildfires charred nearly four million acres of land on both sides of Northern Wisconsin's Green Bay. The fires jumped the Menominee River and headed north into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The speed and ferocity of the firestorm became apparent just hours after the blazes first blew into the region. Entire...
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