BROWNFIELD — As firefighters battle fires fueled by strong winds in northern California this week, it evokes comparisons to the fall of 1947 in Maine, when a swath of destruction 13 miles wide by 7 miles long burned in Brownfield, Maine, and 9,000 acres that accounted for 75 percent of the town’s taxable property were lost.

In 1947, the headlines read: "Brownfield and East Brownfield in Ruins as Raging Inferno Races On"; "Brownfield Although Stunned is Full of Optimism and Courage"; and "Rising Up from the Ashes Brownfield Builds Anew."

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