MOVING HISTORY FORWARD: Getting good stories

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MOVING HISTORY FORWARD: Roman Nose Burn

Fire season became deadly in North Idaho in late summer 1967

Until Aug. 11 the summer of 1967 was not an especially active fire season in Idaho’s Panhandle. On that date the fire index topped out. Lightning strikes set five fires in the Selkirk and Cabinet ranges.