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| - As firefighters battle sprawling wildfires up and down the US West Coast, here is a look back at some of the most deadly such disasters since the 1990s: On November 8, 2018 at dawn, California's deadliest modern fire broke out in the town of Paradise, some 240 kilometres to the north of San Francisco, killing 86 people over more than two weeks. It burned more than 62,000 hectares of land and reduced more than 18,800 buildings to ashes. An investigation found that high tension electricity wires sparked the fire. The Camp Fire is likely the most deadly fire in the United States for a century; the Cloquet Fire in 1918 in the northern state of Minnesota killed around 1,000. California is ravaged by around 20 wildfires from early October that go on to claim 42 lives over the month, most of them in wine-producing Sonoma County, just north of San Francisco, where 22 die. As many as 11,000 firefighters -- some from as far away as Australia -- are involved in battling the blazes which burn through more than 245,000 acres, force the evacuation of 100,000 people and destroy about 10,000 buildings. A fire breaks out in late November in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a popular tourist area straddling the border of southeastern US states of Tennessee and North Carolina, and rapidly spreads, pushed by strong winds and tornadoes. Thirteen people are killed, 12 directly related to the blaze and one of a heart attack while fleeing, authorities say. The rapidly spreading Yarnell Hill fire, which starts in the southwestern state of Arizona in late June, claims the lives of 19 firefighters in a single afternoon on June 30 when it explodes into a firestorm. It is the biggest loss of life among firefighters since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Over 10 days in October fires tear through parched southern California, destroying towns and killing at least 22 people, most around San Diego and San Bernardino and two across the border in Mexico. An army of 14,500 firefighters is called in to battle the 17 wildfires that ravage 750,000 acres of land, obliterating around 2,500 houses. Over July and August in 2000, 13 people die as dozens of fires burn in six states -- California, Idaho, Florida, Nevada, Montana and Wyoming. Idaho and Montana are the hardest hit with 1.2 million acres ablaze. Among the dead are two prisoners in a volunteer firefighting squad in Utah. Wildfires that burn in the western United States over four weeks from early July 1994 claim the lives of 20 firefighters and ravage hundreds of thousands of acres of land in several states, including California, Montana and Utah. The heaviest toll is recorded on July 6, when 14 firefighters are killed after being trapped by flames at Glenwood Springs in Colorado. Over a couple of days in October 1991, 25 people are killed in a wildfire that starts in the hills of California, above the city of Oakland, going on to destroy close to 3,000 buildings. fm/ber/jmy/dw
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