Alex A. Burkholder

Forgotten Fires of Chicago

ISBN: 978-1-62585-302-8
EAN: 9781625853028
Produktnummer: 18439585
Verlag: The History Press Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 0 KB

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A historical journey through the city's catastrophic fires, and the stories of the heroes who fought them. Chicago's war against cinder, flame, and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. In 1909, fire ripped through the dynamite room of a staging facility a mile and half off the Lake Michigan shoreline, transforming the pipe-laying operation into a raging inferno. During the World's Columbian Exposition, thousands of fairgoers watched in horror as twelve firefighters were trapped in a blazing ice warehouse. An opera-goer left a smoking bomb under his seat at the Auditorium Theater in 1917. And the newly invented smoke ejector arrive… Mehr