Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Peshtigo: America's Deadliest Fire" video.

I've read 2 or 3 books on these giant firestorms, and they are worth looking up. The most terrifying is the eyewitness accounts of people bursting into flames as they ran from the fires, and the people begging others to run for their lives, only to be stared at with incomprehension...then trying to haul their belongings with them, not realizing that for them, it was already too late. One train engineer just opened up his already burning train to out run the wall of flames burning up the prairie behind him, while the people in the last cars were catching fire and suffocating from lack of oxygen...he actually managed to get a few hundred to safety....
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@dianemauer6185 You are right! That was the fire caused by over logging and very hot summers, from what I read...I only read the book once because it was so unbelievably heart breaking....so many families died...I can't forget the stories of people running ahead of walls of fire, only to suddenly combust into flames because of the high heat....
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