A lone firefighter faces a wall of flames engulfing a wooded area near the ELB Veterans' Hospital in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Hundreds of wildfires burned thousands of acres of Florida woods between May and July 1998. Firefighters from 48 states and several countries converged to fight the fires. In what can only be described as Divine intervention, there were no fire-related deaths.


At right, Ormond Beach residents Cal Teague, right, and Alton Snyder try to bat out spot fires near the intersection of Clyde Morris Boulevard and Hand Avenue in late June, just as the flames were beginning to spread.

Firefighter Paul Byrg catches a well-deserved nap.	The Idaho Strike Team lends a hand in Florida.

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