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The Tillamook Burn was a series of four forest fires. They arrived at six-year intervals as if they could read a calendar: 1933 (caused by a logging operation), 1939 (another logging operation), 1945 (possibly ignited by a Japanese fire balloon launched into the jet stream to drift to America and start forest fires as a last-ditch attack during WWII, which joined a second blaze caused by a discarded cigarette), and 1951 (logging again). Three quarters of a million acres burned, which is about 1,000 square miles (close to the size of the state of Rhode Island). Due to overlapping areas of the four burns, the ultimate damage covered 550 square miles (about twice the size of New York City, including all five boroughs, sixteen times Manhattan alone).
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