![<p>The opening of the Nicholson adit is now the end of a historical site outside of Wallace which visitors hike a two-mile trail to get to. It was this mine opening where Ed Pulaski hid during the 1910 Fires.</p>](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/ARTICLE_308089999_AR_0_FEDJFEJJEORR_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
<p>The opening of the Nicholson adit is now the end of a historical site outside of Wallace which visitors hike a two-mile trail to get to. It was this mine opening where Ed Pulaski hid during the 1910 Fires.</p>
August 8, 2010
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August 8, 2010 9 p.m.
Trial by fire
Wallace, Pulaski both victims of 'Big Blowup,' but survive
WALLACE - While many of the roughly 4,000 residents of this city on Aug. 20, 1910, were fleeing east and west as the waves of a firestorm burned down the steep hillsides, "Big Ed" Pulaski did everything he could to get back here.
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