Tubbs Fire

The Carr Fire, as it came to be known, ignited on July 23 near the hamlet of Whiskeytown, fifteen miles west of Redding, due to sparks thrown by a trailer wheel with a flat tire. Three days later, the fire roared into the city. The temperature that day was similar to Black Saturday, 2009: 113°F (tying a local record that was 13°F above the average

The Yurok, Karuk, Hupa, Miwok, and Chumash tribes across California, and hundreds of other Indigenous tribes, have been doing controlled burns for millennia, realizing that smaller fires in intentional areas prevent massive fires that would overtake the entire forest. This practice is continued to this day by Indigenous people and park rangers alik

Within three years the plague wiped out between 90 to 96 percent of the inhabitants of coastal New England.