August 14. Start of the Tillamook Burn, a forest fire destroying 1/4 million acres in 1933.

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August 14, 1933.  Loggers in Oregon start the Tillamook Burn, a forest fire destroying 1/4 million acres.

Photo postcard of group of workers in the tall forests of western Oregon, from about 1910.

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August 14. Paul Dean is born in 1912.

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August 13. Sid Gordon is born in 1917.