TRAINING Firefighter Topics Historic Fires Peshtigo Fire, 1871

The purpose of this website is to provide information about the America's "forgotten fire". The author collected all data, stories and documentaries she can get from the net and from her hometown.

This article tackles about the fire that was never written in history books, that according to the author it terms of lives lost, the "worst natural disaster". The author includes beginning of the fire and how did it end. The number of people who died were still unknown because they only based it on 1870 census.

10-page document composed of articles written on the 50th anniversary of the Peshtigo fire.

The article about a fire with hurricane force winds consumed more than 1,000,000 acres of farms, forests, sawmills, and small towns of Wisconsin and upper Michigan. Estimated of 1,500 people lost their lives.