Introduction

Every summer wildfires are reported on the news.  The fires shown on television always happen to other people, in other parts of the country.  The terms wildfire, fire storm, and crown fire are used interchangeably to describe this type of burning. What causes these fires? Why do they get so big and scary? If the fires are forest fires, why are so many houses and people affected?  Could a wildfire happen here? 

 

This website contains information about prescribed burns and wildfires. The page "Fire in Montana" contains
a wonderful fire game. 
 

"Wildfires in Texas" has 2 pages linked to it.  This series of pages provides much information about fire in Texas.

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Title page of fire game Helicopter dropping fire retardant on flames
Large flames of wildfire Map of geological regions of Texas

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This page was last updated on 11/25/2003 by the Webmaster.