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.
Top National Wildfires of All Time. 1  The Great Peshtigo Fire â In 1871, the worst recorded forest fire in North American history raged through Northeastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. 2  Cloquet FireIn 1918, Americans were being killed in World War I in addition to a deadly Spanish flu epidemic.