The Sundance Fire: 50 Years Later
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
As hundreds of thousands of acres burn across the surrounding regions this summer, the areas directly surrounding Sandpoint have been fairly fireless. Though smoke …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
As hundreds of thousands of acres burn across the surrounding regions this summer, the areas directly surrounding Sandpoint have been fairly fireless. Though smoke …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Fifty years ago on Sept. 1, the Sundance Fire churned through the woodlands at an unprecedented rate, growing from 4,000 acres to almost 56,000 acres …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
(with Ben Olson contributing reporting)
Fire is burned into Idaho history just as surely as the accomplishments of its people.
Since its foundation as a …
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