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Alex A. Burkholder

Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards

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Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971, including some of the most disastrous conflagrations of a city famous for fire. In 1910, twenty-one firemen and three civilians were killed in a blaze at a beef warehouse--the largest death toll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the constant threat of fire as part of the cost of doing business, shrugging it off with an, &quote;It's all right, we're fully covered.&quote; For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the f… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61423-862-1
  • EAN: 9781614238621
  • Produktnummer: 18438503
  • Verlag: The History Press Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 0 KB

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