This article is a list of notable fires. Town and city fires Building or structure fires Transportation fires Mining (including oil and natural gas drilling) fires This is a partial list of fire due to mining: man-made structures to extract minerals, ores, rock, petroleum, natural gas, etc. Forest and countryside fires 1933Griffith Park Fire in Los Angeles, California, killed 29 firefighters on October 3 1933Tillamook Burn, Oregon 1936Kursha-2, 1200 killed 1936Bandon, Oregon, Bandon's entire commercial district was destroyed, total loss stated at the time was US$3 million, with 11 fatalities. 1937Blackwater fire of 1937 in Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming, killed 15 firefighters on August 21 1939Black Friday bushfires in Australia. 71 people killed. 1949 The great forest fire of 1949 in the Landes Forest, wildfire, lost, 82 people killed. 1949Mann Gulch fire 1953Rattlesnake Fire, set by an arsonist named Stan Pattan, in Mendocino National Forest near Willows, California, killed 15 firefighters on July 9 1963Paraná forest fire, 20,000 square kilometres destroyed, killing at least 110, with 5,000 houses burned in September. 1966Serra de Sintra forest fire, outskirt of Lisbon, Portugal, destroyed, killing 26. 19671967 Tasmanian fires in Tasmania, Australia, 62 killed and over 900 injured. 1971Kure forest fire, Kure, western Honshū, Japan, 18 firefighters killed on April 27 1975Fire on the Lüneburg Heath in north Germany, 80 square kilometres destroyed, 7 fatalities including 5 firefighters killed on August 10 1983Ash Wednesday bushfires killed 75 people and injured more than 2600 others in South Australia and Victoria. 19871987 Daxing'anling wildfire in People's Republic of China, burned for a month 1988Yellowstone fires of 1988 largest, most expensive wildfire in the history of the National Park Service, at the world's first national park. 1991Oakland firestorm of 1991, Oakland, California, U.S., killed 25 people and injured 150 others. 1994Isabela Island forest fire, Galápagos Island, Ecuador, 12 km² lost in April. 1994South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain near Glenwood Springs, Colorado kills fourteen firefighters on July 6. 2002Biscuit Fire, the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Oregon 2003Canberra bushfires, Australian Capital Territory, 4 killed and 435 injured 2003Cedar Fire, destroyed over 550 homes and many acres of land, Southern California 20032003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire, British Columbia 2005Eyre Peninsula bushfire, South Australia, 9 killed, at least 113 injured and 79 houses destroyed 2006Pilliga forest fire burned out 740 km² on just its first day 2007October 2007 California wildfires 2008Summer 2008 California wildfires,