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Description: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 arrived too late to save firemen and laborers cut off in a sewer in 1931.Join John F. Hogan and Alex A. Burkholder for the history of these forgotten fires--and those who responded to them."A must-read not only for first responders but also all history buffs, especially those interested in Chicago history." --Robert Hoff, retired fire commissioner, Chicago Fire Department, from the forewordWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame. To get started finding Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 arrived too late to save firemen and laborers cut off in a sewer in 1931.Join John F. Hogan and Alex A. Burkholder for the history of these forgotten fires--and those who responded to them."A must-read not only for first responders but also all history buffs, especially those interested in Chicago history." --Robert Hoff, retired fire commissioner, Chicago Fire Department, from the forewordWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame. To get started finding Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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