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What Was the Great Chicago Fire?
What Was the Great Chicago Fire? | Janet B. Pascal, Who Hq
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Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series. On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything that could go wrong did. Firemen first went to the wrong location. Fierce winds helped the blaze jump the Chicago River twice. The Chicago Waterworks burned down, making it impossible to fight the fire. Finally after two days, Mother Nature took over, with rain smothering the flames. This overview of a stupendous disaster not only covers the fire but explores the whole history of fire fighting.
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What Was the Great Chicago Fire? | Janet B. Pascal, Who Hq
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Not a bad book. Covers the fire fairly well. I knew most of what was in there already. The couple chapters on early firefighting were interesting. I always find it interesting and a bit of a forehead slapped that the builders/architects didn‘t learn not to build all wood structures right away and that it took a second smaller but major fire and insurance companies not willing to insure buildings for them to finally use stone and metal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️