Great Fire of London

Final Draft The Great Chicago Fire was fire that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. This fire killed up to 300 people, it also destroyed about 3.3 miles square miles of Chicago Illinois and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. The Great Chicago Fire was a devastating event, but there were some benefits that came after the deadliest fire in the history of the United States of America. Many people are only told about the devastation of the fire but, there…

The Mann Gulch fire on August 5 1949 in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness Area of the Helena National Forest in Montana. Thirteen young firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service’s elite Smokejumpers unit died in a sudden blow up of a fire on the north ridge of Mann Gulch, trapped by the fire that had outflanked them. After his retirement as a professor at the University of Chicago, Montana writer Norman Maclean spent the last…

On February 20th 2003, The Station nightclub in caught on fire. Four hundred people had come in the club to hear the band Great White play, when fireworks set off by the band’s manager caught fire to the foam board on the stage. (NFPA, 2006). In the end 100 people lay dead. That makes it the fourth most deadly nightclub fire in the history of the US. The massive amount of deaths can be blamed mostly to the fireworks being to close to the soundboard, the facility being over packed, and the lack…

family. I am extremely grateful for the chance to delve into a history I am most certainly unaware of. A long time before my Great Grandfather, Lawrence Dale Zea, and his sisters Louise and Lucille, and brother Kenny lived in Illinois the Zea family lineage began in New York. Our lineage spawns from hard working laborers in an unknown town in New York. My great-great-great-grandfather, George Washington Zea, was born in New York on December 10, 1854 to Sylvester Zea and Margaret Maria…

the Great Chicago Fire began. It burned down homes, killed hundreds, and demolished buildings. $200 million worth of buildings were destroyed. It is rumored that the fire was started by Catherine O’Leary’s cow who knocked over a lighted lantern. Chicago didn’t stand a chance against the fire. Barely any rain had fallen in months. Buildings, sidewalks, and roads were made of wood. Because of the dry weather, everything made of wood was dry and acted as excellent fuel to the fire. The fire led to…

THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE OF 1871 Chicago was a booming community with some of the finest and most modern building in the country, 59,500 buildings to be exact. Although some of those building were built from stone or brick and proclaimed fireproof. “Chicago was, in fact, a city of wood… The nearby forests of Michigan and Wisconsin made that material both inexpensive and easily obtainable.” Around two- thirds of Chicago’s building and houses were made of flammable wood. On October 8, 1871 a…

In October of 1918 a very strong forest fire burned up a large portion of Northern Minnesota. At the time of the fire my Grandpa Arvid was around 5 years old. Although it’s called the Cloquet fire it was actually about 50 fires combined into a single event. The two major fires were the Cloquet-Duluth fire and the Moose Lake fire. Dry conditions, strong winds, and lumbering are 3 reasons why the fire was so out of control. Conditions were building for months. The summer of 1918 was extremely dry…

the book The Great Fire, the author Jim Murphy gave enough evidence to show that Chicago was a city ready to burn into a mountain of flames in 1871. At the onset, the city was a windy city anyway but tonight it was just so out of hand that (60 miles per hour)when the fire started in the O’leary’s barn they said that the cow kicked the lamp over when she was milking it, the wind it just picked the fire up and threw it from house to house and building to building. The wind made the fire easily to…

Chicago was a city ready to ignite from the flames of a dragon's breath flying over the city. In the book, The Great Fire, by Jim Murphy, the author clearly shows us this dragon. ‘First of all, the city was made of flammable things that could burst up into flames at any time it wanted too. Houses were wood, the streets, barns, and even the wagons. At first, families didn’t take the fire seriously until it was too late. They were so frightened they were leaving behind friends and neighbors,…

that, "Trees exploded in the extreme heat. Flaming hunks of wood flew across the forest, setting more fires miles away," saying that there were more fires being started because of this huge fire. The article also talked about the Great Chicago fire, even though less people died, it was more famous than the Peshtigo fire because Chicago was a more famous city than Peshtigo was. The effects that fires…