Name: Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame
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Author: Hogan, John F. ; Burkholder, Alex a.
ISBN: 9781540212047

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Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame

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Physical Book

Author

John F. Hogan

Alex A. Burkholder

Publisher

History Press Library Editions

Language

English

Pages

146

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9781540212047

Synopsis "Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame"

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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