Fiona Apple. Daughter of former singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart. She was classically trained as a pianist as a child and began composing songs when she was eight years old. She crafted a demo tape while in Los Angeles finishing High School.
The Miramichi Fire. (A View of Miramichi, 1760, oil painting by Francis Swaine) These blazes whipped up into a firestorm during a dry summer in Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick in October 1825, charring a massive 3 million acres and taking out settlements along the Miramichi River.
Hundreds of wildfires scorch Canada as extreme heat spreads. Forest fires blaze along highway 969 in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, on June 29, 2015. A long-lasting, record-smashing heat wave in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada continues to fuel hundreds of wildfires in three Canadian provinces and several states across America.