FIRE
Smokey Bear
You probably know Smokey Bear as the face of fire prevention, but do you know that he was introduced in an effort to help win a war?
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It all started in 1942, during WWII. One year after firing on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese submarine approached the California coast and fired a blast of shells. The shells hit an oil field in Santa Barbara, near the Los Padres National Forest.
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