Peshtigo Fire



"The Peshtigo fire. Yeah. Well, that seems handy. Also, I remember when I had an ancestor of mine who was a blonde-haired girl who was six years old at the time of the fire. Her name is Sophia Griffiths. She apparently fled to my village after the fire when her father died while her sister, mother and baby brother did survive too. Now I guess I'll plan to bring Sophia Griffiths back too."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Sophia Griffiths' Memory

The Peshtigo fire was a very large forest fire that took place on October 8, 1871, in northeastern Wisconsin, including much of the Door Peninsula, and adjacent parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The largest community in the affected area was Peshtigo, Wisconsin. It burned approximately 1,200,000 acres (490,000 ha) and was the deadliest wildfire in American history, with the estimated deaths of around 1,500 people, and possibly as many as 2,500.

Occurring on the same day as the more famous Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo fire has been largely forgotten.[3][4] On the same day as the Peshtigo and Chicago fires, Holland and Manistee, Michigan (across Lake Michigan from Peshtigo), and Port Huron at the southern end of Lake Huron also had major fires, leading to various theories by contemporaries and later historians that they had a mutual cause.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away,it would be happened when Great Stalereach Fire make Stalereach being destroyed. Su Ji-Hoon also remembers his descendant named Sophia Griffiths (a blonde-haired six-year-old girl who fled to Gyeongyeong after the Peshtigo fire).