| Forgotten Fires of Chicago:: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame Contributor(s): Hogan, John F. (Author), Burkholder, Alex A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1626197474 ISBN-13: 9781626197473 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief - Technology & Engineering | Fire Science |
| Dewey: 977.311 |
| Series: Disaster |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.12" W x 8.97" (0.70 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |