Born From the Ashes: How the 1910 Baudette Fire Created the Minnesota Forest Service
SHOW DESCRIPTION: On the evening of October 7, 1910, a terrifying hurricane of fire swept across the Rainy River basin, leveling the twin border towns of Baudette and Spooner in under two hours. Driven by a severe regional drought, miles of discarded logging slash, and a tragic political budget cut that pulled state fire rangers off duty just thirty-six days earlier, the Baudette-Spooner Fire burned over 300,000 acres and claimed over forty lives. Ranking as the third-deadliest wildfire and second-largest by acreage in Minnesota history, the catastrophe could have been far worse without a…
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