Introduction

This blog will focus on fire but more specifically, on petroleum, natural gas, forest fire, energy efficiency and management as well as energy and power. Fire is a combustion of certain chemicals combined with oxygen in the air that typically gives off a bright light, heat and smoke. Fire can be deadly as it can destroy homes, wildlife habitat, timber and can also pollute the air with emissions such as carbon dioxide, that is harmful to human health. For many centuries, we have used petroleum as fuel. Petroleum is a yellow, black liquid that is mixed with hydrocarbons. Natural gas consists of mostly methane and hydrocarbons. Due to industrial factories using petroleum and natural gas as their energy source, it has caused great damage to the environment. Some of the material that have been produced that contain natural gas have caused wildfires to occur. Forest fires are an uncontrollable fire that occurs within nature, emitting carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, causing more pollution and harm to wildlife. In reducing carbon dioxide and global warming, we have become energy efficient by using solar power and wind power. Energy efficiency is achieved by using less energy when using or making our daily products. Wind power is a sustainable way to generate electricity because it does not produce pollution. The decrease of air pollution will be the result of an increase in renewable energy. Becoming aware of the components that lead to a fire will lead us to obtain more energy and become more power efficient.

Friday, April 24, 2015

The “Big Blowup”




The first fire of 1910 broke out on the Blackfeet National Forest in northwestern Montana on April 29. This wildfire was known as the  "Big Blowup” as it caused devastating series of forest fires that swept over Idaho, Montana and Washington.  Official reports after the Big Blowup estimated that 1,736 total fires burned more than 3 million acres of private and federal land, consuming an estimated 7.5 billion board feet of timber. 

At least 85 people were killed and several small towns were completely destroyed as one-third of the community was burned. Smoke from the fires reached New England and soon traveled all the way to Greenland. Nationally, wildfires in 1910 consumed more than 5 million acres. The Lake States region saw its worst fire season ever with more than a million acres lost. 


Works Cited: Halm, Joe B. "The 1910 Fires." Big Blowup. The Forest History Society, July 2001. Web. 20 Apr. 2015.
- Jesus Perez



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