The Blue Ridge Mountains region is a 600-mile-long segment of the mighty Appalachian range. Like all Appalachians, these rock formations are far older than the Rockies, their counterpart to the west.

The fire began just outside of Lithgow, New South Wales. The combination of warm weather and dry winds in September 2013 had made the Blue Mountains grassland unusually dry for that time of year. That ...

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