More than 200 people have been hospitalized with breathing difficulties in Tennessee as wildfires scorched across the Southeast. Over 30 large fires have burned more than 80,000 acres in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky. Some school systems, are limiting outdoor physical activity. Students with respiratory conditions, those wishing to remain indoors during recess and athletes with outdoor practice are allowed to remain inside.
This relates to the Great fire of 1910, also occasionally referred to as the "Big Burn," is believed to be the largest single fire in recorded us history. It burned more than 3 million acres in Idaho, Montana and Washington — in all, a total area roughly the size of Connecticut.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/16/health/southern-wildfires-hospitalizations/index.html
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