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Deadliest U.S. Wildfires

Oct. 26, 2006

-- Four U.S. Forest Service firefighters killed in Riverside County, Calif.

1933

-- Griffith Park Fire, California, 47 acres, 25 firefighters killed.

1953

-- Rattlesnake Fire, California, 1,340 acres, 15 firefighters killed.

1994

-- South Canyon Fire, Colorado, 1,856 acres, 14 firefighters killed.

1949

-- Mann Gulch Fire, Montana, 4,339 acres, 13 firefighters killed.

1943

-- Hauser Creek Fire, California, 13,145 acres, 11 firefighters killed.

1956

-- Inaja Fire, California, 43,904 acres, 11 firefighters killed.

Sources: The Associated Press; National Interagency Fire Center; U.S. Forest Service; and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

More: http://www.nifc.gov/reports

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