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Originally Posted by Bwana
Yeah that thing was huge and burned very hot because of all the fuel that had built up over the years. If not for a last minute change in the wind, Cooke City would have been Cooked city and been taken out. There were millings of dollars spent trying to control it, but it was like trying to put out a giant bond fire with a squirt gun. The only thing that was able to put it out was a September snow.
Cooke about to get cooked just before the wind change.
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We went in 88. Could smell the smoke while we were still hours away and at night the skyline glowed orange. I remember they had just reopened the road to old faithful that day, and as we drove on it there were tiny little fires burning in the woods just off the road. I remember wanting to stop and put them out.
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