Home >> Regional >> North America >> United States >> Minnesota >> Localities >> H >> Hinckley >> Society and Culture >> History >> The Great Hinckley Fire In September 1, 1894, after the 2-year drought, several fires began in the pine forests of Pine County, Minnesota. Because of midst, dried brush left in the outdoors when logging, as well as a temperature inversion that trapped the gases from either a fires, the fires developed into a firestorm, with flaming reaching all over tetrad miles (Vi klick) high & temperatures reaching G degrees Fahrenheit (550 °C). Around quaternion hours a fire blow out 400 square miles (1000 kilometre²) & flushed further than 400 humans. A towns of Mission Creek, Brook Park and Hinckley were completely destroyed. James Root The dramatic story of the heroism of a railroad engineer who saved almost 300 lives during the Great Hinckley Fire. The Hero of Hinckley News feature from Minnesota Public Radio about Ojibwe artist Steve Premo's mural honoring an Ojibwe woman who rescued a white family in the Hinckley Fire of 1894. Society: History: By Topic: Disasters: Fires
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