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When Maine burned: How the monster Fire of ’47 tested the state’s resilience and altered its landscape
The fires that swept across Maine 70 years ago this month were like nothing its residents had seen before, or thankfully since.
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Three years after a photo was published with the overline 'Our Flag Was Still There,' a reader of the Maine Sunday Telegram solved the cliffhanger for readers with an amazing tale.
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Despite decades of improvements in firefighting equipment, communications and techniques, Nature can still produce tinderbox conditons with devastating potential, experts say.
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Dr. John W. Kelley remembers fighting fires as a 16-year-old Deering student. Listen
Jane Cormier Obermeyer describes fleeing Bar Harbor and the death of her teenage sister during the evacuation. Listen
Mabel Emery and her daughter Ruth Gobeil escaped just before their farm went up in flames and ended up in the water at Goose Rocks when their refuge also burned. Listen
