Description: Forgotten Fires of Chicago, Illinois, Disaster, Paperback Chicago's war against cinder, flame and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. That conflagration was only one engagement in a ceaseless and often unrecognized conflict, fought in the most unlikely places. In 1909, fire ripped through the dynamite room of a staging facility one and a half miles 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 operagoer 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 Hogan and Alex Burkholder for the history of these forgotten fires and the heroes who fight them.
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781626197473
Book Title: Forgotten Fires of Chicago: : the Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6in
Author: John F. Hogan, Alex A. Burkholder
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Historical, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, IL, in, Ks, MI, MN, MO, Nd, Ne, OH, Sd, Wi), Fire Science
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Photography, Technology & Engineering, History
Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
