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Hogan, John F., Burkholder, Alex A.
Lingua: inglese
Editore: Arcadia Publishing, 2013
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- Titolo
- Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards : A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle
- Autore
- Hogan, John F., Burkholder, Alex A.
- Editore
- Arcadia Publishing
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2013
- Condizione
- Very Good
- Rilegatura
- Brossura
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 1609499077
- ISBN 13
- 9781609499075
- Peso dell'articolo
- 0,602 libbre
- Dimensioni
- N/A
Wade into the endless smoke of Chicagos Union Stock Yards,the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971,including some of the most disastrous conflagrations of a city famous for fire.In 1910, twenty-one firemen and three civilians were killed in a blaze at abeef warehousethe largest death toll for an organized fire department in thenation prior to 9/11. The meatpackerswho ran the yards considered the constant threat of fire as part of the cost ofdoing business, shrugging it off with an, Its all right, were fullycovered. For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames againand again, it was an entirely different matter.
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