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Wildfire or wildfire has various meanings:-

A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in wildland
Wildfire is the name of the secret underground biological testing facility in the book and movie The Andromeda Strain.
Wildfire is a synonym for Greek fire, a napalm-like substance used in medieval European naval warfare
The singer/songwriter Michael Murphey released a song titled "Wildfire".
"Wildfire" is a song on Sonata Arctica's album Reckoning Night
Wildfire Games is a freeware hobbyist game developer studio.
Wildfire (aka Erg-1) is a DC Comics superhero, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Wildfire is a television drama on ABC Family.
Wild Fire is a type of rocket vehicle.
Wildfire was an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera that premiered on CBS in 1986; only 13 episodes were produced.

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Categories: Disambiguation Fire in San Bernardino, California Mountains (image taken from the International Space Station) A wildfire, also known as a forest fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, brush fire, or bushfire (in Australasia), is an uncontrolled fire often occurring in wildland areas, but which can also consume houses or agricultural resources. ... The Andromeda Strain DVD The Andromeda Strain is a book (ISBN 0345378482) written in 1968 by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin which causes rapid, fatal clotting of the blood. ... Depiction of Greek Fire in the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript Greek Fire (also called Byzantine Fire and liquid fire) was a weapon used by the Byzantine Empire, said to have been invented by a Syrian Christian refugee named Kallinikos (Callinicus) of Heliopolis, probably about 673. ... A napalm airstrike during the Vietnam War Napalm is a flammable, gasoline-based weapon invented in 1942. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Naval warfare is combat in and on seas and oceans. ... Michael Martin Murphey is a singer and songwriter. ... The band Sonata Arctica (counterclockwise): Tony Kakko, Jani Liimatainen, Marko Paasikoski, Tommy Portimo and Henrik Klingenberg Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. ... Reckoning Night is an album by the Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica. ... Wildfire Games is a PC game design studio founded in January, 2001 as a modpack design team for Age of Empires II. In 2002, Wildfire Games (or commonly, WFG) began work on a historically-based, freeware game called 0 A.D. Today the company is currently working on 0 A... Wildfire is a fictional character in the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes. ... The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ... Superman (left) and Batman, two of the most recognizable and influential superheroes. ... The Legion of Super-Heroes is a team of comic book superheroes in the future. ... ABC Family is a cable television network currently owned by Disney/ABC. The network was founded by Pat Robertson as CBN Cable and then the name was changed to CBN Family Channel and when the network was spun off from the Christian Broadcasting Network to a new company called International... Wild Fire is a manned rocket vehicle designed and built as part of the da Vinci Project, an attempt to win the Ansari X Prize for the first privately-funded reusable spacecraft. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ...

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Wildfire (2625 words)
	The word "wildfire" originated as a synonym for Greek fire, a napalm-like substance used in medieval Europe as a naval weapon; the word attained its present meaning by a common misunderstanding of the expression "spread like wildfire".
	Wildfires tend to be most common and severe during years of drought and occur on days of strong winds.
	In the case of the fires in southeastern France, the speed of the fire is estimated to be 3% to 8% of the speed of the wind, depending on the conditions (density and type of vegetation, slope).

Wildfire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2768 words)
	The word "wildfire" originated as a synonym for Greek fire, a napalm-like substance used in medieval Europe as a naval weapon; the word attained its present meaning by a common misunderstanding of the expression "spread like wildfire".
	Wildfires tend to be most common and severe during years of drought and occur on days of strong winds.
	In the case of the fires in southeastern France, the speed of the fire is estimated to be 3% to 8% of the speed of the wind, depending on the conditions (density and type of vegetation, slope).

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