But, when Holmes claimed that he and his generation had been touched with fire, he meant that their character had been forged through the searing challenges and tragic deaths of wartime military service.
That makes the Campfire, the name of the blaze that scorched Paradise, the most destructive wildfire in California's history as far as property damage goes.
But now, strangers were travelling about the country, strangers who were poor, like the people, but who talked about new ideas--- ideas which had started in Paris and were now running like fire across the country.