Among the notable wildfires is the Great Fire of 1910 in the US; Kursha-2, a wildfire that killed 1,200 in the former Soviet Union; the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire in British Columbia, Canada; the 1997-98 forest fires in Kalimantan and East Sumatra, Indonesia that destroyed some 97,000 sq. km (24.1 million acres) of rainforest; the 2007 Southern California wildfires that burned an estimated 600,000 acres (2,400 sq. km) of land. __
