VIDEO: As part of Fire Awareness Week at KTVB, the team is looking back at major fires that have affected the Treasure Valley over the last several decades.
We're looking back on how they started, the damage they caused and what we learned from them to be better prepared for the next big one. Those who fought the Oregon Trail fire said it was the worst they have ever, and hopefully, will ever see.
Former KTVB reporter Kaycee Murray reported on the fire as it spread through the Boise area.
"The hot and fast electricity created a strong current traveling through powerlines from Boise Avenue to Amity Road before reaching a piece of equipment called a connector on a power pole," she said during a broadcast. "Investigators say that connector became so hot that it started to melt, causing molten metal to fall to the dry grass igniting what would become one of Boise's all-time biggest fires."