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The blaze, also called the Great Thumb Fire, the Great Forest Fire of 1881 and the Huron Fire, killed 282 people in Sanilac, Lapeer, Tuscola and Huron counties. The damage estimate was $2,347,000 [2] in 1881, equivalent to $74,100,455 when adjusted for inflation.
The Thumb Fire, also known as the Great Thumb Fire, the Huron Fire and the Great Forest Fire of 1881 was a large and sudden forest fire that burned over a million acres and took over 100 lives in Lapeer, Sanilac, Tuscola, and Huron counties on Monday, September 5th, 1881.
8 Ιαν 2007 · The population was denser on Sept. 5, 1881, when a firestorm traveled across Sanilac County in four hours, leaving 150 people dead and hundreds injured. To save themselves, some residents jumped into wells, remaining there for up to five hours before crawling out.
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Michigan Historical Markers: “Small fires were burning in the forests of the Thumb, tinder-dry after a long, hot summer, when a gale swept in from the southwest on Sept. 5, 1881. Fanned into an inferno, the fires raged for three days.
11 Φεβ 2022 · Small fires were burning in the forests of the Thumb, tinder-dry after a long, hot summer, when a gale swept in from the southwest on September 5, 1881. Fanned into an inferno, the fires raged for three days. A million acres were devastated in Sanilac and Huron Counties alone.
12 Σεπ 2020 · The 1881 fire destroyed 51 schools, over 3,000 barns, and dwellings and led to over 300 deaths. Over 14,000 Thumb residents would require public aid while on their path to recovery from the devastation. The fires have been written about extensively in the ensuing decades.
