Barack Obama hopes to restore the climate to the kinder, gentler days of times past, when fires were cooler and less intense.
Over more than two and a half million acres almost every living thing was killed. Even the fish were afterwards found dead in heaps along the river banks. , Five hundred and ninety buildings were burned, and a number of towns, including Newcastle, Chatham and Douglas town, were destroyed. One hundred and sixty persons perished, and nearly a thousand head of stock.
