The Great Fires of 1947 were a series of forest fires in the State of Maine in the United States that destroyed a total area of 17188 acre of wooded land on Mount Desert Island and 200000 acre statewide.
 Collectively, the fires killed a total of 16 people.
 This disaster is an important part of the local history of the York County and Mount Desert Island areas.
Maren Spliid, Spliids or Splids, (c. 1600 – 9 November 1641), was an alleged Danish witch, probably the best known victim of the persecution of witches in Denmark.
 Together with Norway, Denmark burned more witches than the other countries in Scandinavia, and many people were burned between 1540 and 1693, especially in Jutland.
Fire is a serious hazard in shack settlements in South Africa.
 It has been argued that "On average in South Africa over the last five years there are ten shack fires a day with someone dying in a shack fire every other day."
 In 2011, 151 were reported to have been killed in shack fires in Cape Town.
 It was reported that in 2014 2 090 people burned to death in the Gauteng province, "many of them in shack fires that sweep through informal settlements".
The 1994 Eastern seaboard fires were bushfires in New South Wales, Australia between August 1993 and 16 January 1994 were widespread along the NSW coast from Bega to the Queensland border and inland as far as Bathurst.
 Also Over 80 separate fires encouraged by extreme hot dry and windy conditions threatened many areas including the major cities of Newcastle and Sydney.
 The fires killed four people and burnt out over 800,000 ha .
 The fires across the state destroyed 225 homes in total - 101 of which were in the southern Sydney suburbs of Jannali and Como West where Como West Public School was also destroyed.
 13 houses were destroyed in suburbs around Lane Cove National Park and 42 were destroyed around Kuringai National Park, Garigal National Park and the Royal National Park, 9 houses including a Youth hostel were destroyed in Hawkesbury Heights in the Blue Mountains.
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 together formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
 Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control with increasing winds and drought and combined into one large conflagration, which burned for several months.
 The fires almost destroyed two major visitor destinations and, on September 8, 1988, the entire park was closed to all non-emergency personnel for the first time in its history.
 Only the arrival of cool and moist weather in the late autumn brought the fires to an end.
 A total of 793880 acre , or 36 percent of the park was affected by the wildfires.
Goose Rocks Beach (formerly known as "Beachwood"), is a beach neighborhood located in the town of Kennebunkport, Maine United States, bordered by Cape Porpoise, Maine (another neighborhood of Kennebunkport) to the southwest, and Granite Point (a coastal neighborhood of Biddeford, Maine ) to the northeast.
 The village is inhabited mainly by summer residents from surrounding states and Canadian Provinces.
 The Little River, which forms a border between Kennebunkport and Biddeford, empties into Goosefare Bay, the body of water that faces Goose Rocks Beach.
 Goose Rocks is unofficially bounded by the Batsun River to the south-west, Route 9 to the north-west, and the Little River to the north-east.
 In 2009 Goose Rocks Beach was the subject of a recent lawsuit in which multiple beach-front property owners filed against the town of Kennebunkport, claiming that they owned the beach in front of their homes up to the high tide water line.
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 Goose Rocks Beach was the site of the O'Hara Watercolor School run by American watercolor painter Eliot O'Hara from 1930 to 1947.
 The school and many other buildings burned down in the Great Fires of 1947.
Zozobra ("Old Man Gloom") is a giant marionette effigy that is built and burned during the annual Fiestas de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
 As his name suggests, he embodies gloom; by burning him, people destroy the worries and troubles of the previous year in the flames.
 Anyone with an excess of gloom is encouraged to write down the nature of his or her gloom on a slip of paper and leave it in the "gloom box" found in the offices of the "Santa Fe Reporter" in the weeks leading up to the burn.
 Many people put legal papers in the gloom box as well.
 At the festival the papers from the gloom box are placed at Zozobra's feet to be burned alongside him.
The 2009 California wildfires were a series of 8,291 wildfires that were active in the state of California, USA, during the year 2009.
 The fires burned more than 404601 acre of land from early February through late November, due to Red Flag conditions, destroying hundreds of structures, injuring 134 people, and killing two.
 The wildfires also caused at least $134.48 million (2009 USD) in damage.
 Although the fires burned many different regions of California in August, the month was especially notable for several very large fires which burned in Southern California, despite being outside of the normal fire season for that region.
Precious Blood Church of Holyoke, Massachusetts burned on May 27, 1875 killing 78 people.
 The fire started at the front of the church as a candle flame ignited a curtain.
 There was a crush of people through the entrance at the back left and many people could not leave.
 It is one of the deadliest fires in American history.
The El Ayyat train disaster happened at 02:00 on the morning of 20 February 2002 in an eleven-carriage passenger train travelling from Cairo to Luxor.
 A cooking gas cylinder exploded in the fifth carriage, creating a fire which engulfed seven third-class carriages, reducing them almost to cinders.
 The initial number of dead given by officials at the time was 383, all Egyptians.
 However, considering that seven carriages were burnt to the ground, and each carriage was packed with at least double the maximum carrying capacity of 150, this number is considered by many people to be a great underestimate.
 The dubious nature of the given death toll lies with the absence of a full passenger list; accounting for those missing was almost impossible at the time.
 In addition, the fire was so intense and the carriages so badly burned that many corpses had been reduced to ash.
 As there was no means of communication between the driver and the rear carriages, the driver did not know of the fire until about two hours after it had begun, resulting in many people, attempting to flee from the overcrowded carriages, jumping to their death.
 Some important Egyptians have commentated that the official number of 383 dead is grossly inaccurate and was an attempt to lessen the damage done to the reputation of the government.
 Many people consider a number of about 1000 deaths to be more accurate.

Question:  The O'Hara Watercolor School was burned down during fires that killed how many people?
Answer: 16