9min 49sec slideshow of photos about the yellowstone fire.
Article about the Yellowstone fires. These fires together formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of the U.S.'s Yellowstone National Park. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames spread quickly out of control with increasing winds and drought and combined into one large conflagration, which burned for several months. The fires almost destroyed two major visitor destinations and, on September 8, 1988, the entire park was closed to all non-emergency personnel for the first time in its history.Only the arrival of cool and moist weather in the late autumn brought the fires to an end. A total of 793,880 acres (3,213 km2), or 36 percent of the park was affected by the wildfires.
Article about the Yellowstone fire. They said that the Yellowstone plants are fire-adapted because its just a normal scenario to them if there's a wildfire. However the 1988 fire was radically diffrent. It's the driest season in the park's recorded history.
8 page PDF file about the 1988 Forest Fires of Yellowstone National Park.
5min 17sec video of an old news report about the wild fire in Yellowstone National park back in 1988.
