Grace Gutzkow Research Paper

On the morning of Thursday November 4th, a group of firemen were called to an old lady’s

     The fire spread from the O’Learys’ barn to the yards nearby. Soon it was spreading throughout the neighborhood. William Lee, a neighbor a block away, saw the fire and ran to Bruno Goll’s drugstore to turn in the fire alarm. Bruno Goll refused to turn in the alarm because he said the fire truck had already gone past. So instead of arguing, Lee went home to his family. At the courthouse the lookout on duty saw smoke, but thought nothing of it, thinking it was just Saturday's fire and there was no reason to be alarmed. Then he looked up and noticed it was a different fire and had his assistant strike the Box 342 for the fire department. Soon fire trucks were at the scene and attempted to put out the fire. The fire department’s Chief Marshal, Robert A. Williams got the engines to circle the fire to contain it. They got as close to the fire as they could until their arm hair was being burned and their

This tragic fire demonstrated how the fire inspections and precautions were noticeably lacking safety for these workers even though “a little more than five months before the tragedy Firemen Edward F. O’Conner made a routine inspection and said the Asch Building was ‘good’ and the building was ‘fireproof’”(28). The fire finally died down with over one hundred dead bodies piled along the streets. Sunday morning “thousands of people began to form into a slowly moving parade around the city blocks”(89). The people were walking in honor of these workers and would go around trying to identify the bodies and confiscate any items the bodies my have possessed for reminiscences. On the other hand, the departments felt immediate quilt for not stepping in to fix the Asch building before, because the departments knew of the horrible safety and health precautions the Asch building had but nobody emphasized the problems. “But who was to blame?” (113). Chief Croker was quick to blame

Kate Kimball is an award-winning fiction author who has worked hard to be in the position she is in now. Despite currently struggling with her health, she has continued to peruse her English PhD in Creative Writing here at Florida State University. Born in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah Kimball is surprised to find herself over 2,000 miles away now studying in the sunshine state. FSU offers one of the top creative writing programs that currently is ranked top 5 in the nation according to The Atlantic Monthly. Kimball was excited to be accepted into the accredited program after earning her bachelor’s from the University of Utah and masters at Virginia Tech. Kimball has always loved writing and says, “Creative writing allows you to write about

One man saw the fire and tried to get someone to use the fire box to get the fire department to send a fire truck. Sadly he had no such luck in notifying them. Fire boxes were boxes located on the street corner for people to use to alert the closest fire department, because telephones were not commonly available at that time. The other man just insisted that a fire truck had probably already been called and was on its way. The fire was so destructive because there were many mistakes and dangerous

Fisher and paul watched an old red fire engine cruising slowly up and down the streets. The fire engine turned in there direction. They waved and hollered and manages to attract the driver’s attention. When the engine rolled up in front of our house and the driver got out, he came alone. He had on knee-high black and yellow boots, a pair of cutoff shorts, and a white t-shirt that had Tangerine Volunteer Fire Department Wayne written over breast pocket.

Anna Cathryn Nowak was born to David and Wendy Nowak on Thursday August 29th, 2001 at 2:11pm in Hazleton General Hospital. Anna measured 20.5 inches and weighed 7 lbs 14 oz .Her name honors her father’s grandmothers. Grandparents are John and Carol Sessock and the late Robert and MaryAnn Nowak of Freeland. She will be joining an older brother Shane.

Sarah Breedlove which name she was born into on 12/23/1867 in Delta Louisiana on a cotton plantation.Sarah Breedlove parents name was Minerva and Owen Breedlove.Sarah Breedlove had 5 siblings.In all 6 kids Owen and Minerva had,Sarah Breedlove was the first one to be born-free.Sarah Breedlove was born-free because she was born around the war of 1812.

Firefighter Ken Straube served the La Grange Fire Department as a Paid-on-Call member of the department for 49 years. Although born in St. Louis, Ken was a lifelong resident of La Grange. He began working for the fire department before he was 21 year of age (which required a very hard to get signature from his mother!). Ken graduated from Lyons Township High School in 1959 and went on to attend Lyons Township Junior College for two years. During the spring of 1961, a house fire erupted near 49th and Waiola. Ken was helping firemen pull hoses towards the burning structure as he had been doing for months. Fire Captain Bob Kurzrock (retired 1977) told him he could get paid for the duty and he should join as a volunteer or paid-on-call fireman. However, Ken’s mom would NOT sign the permission slips because he was under 21

Being the first woman to participate in a fire rescue and late be made the mascot for firemen was Lillie Hitchcock Coit. What made her famous amongst the people of San Francisco was from the first time that she participated in a fire rescue with the Knickerbocker Engine Company No.5 (Museum). It was not common for women to work, especially in a job that required strength and “manpower”. She moved to California from West Point in 1851 with her parents. Ever since she was a young girl, Lillie found a fascination in fire fighting, which is why at fifteen years old she grabbed hold of the vacant spot on the rope and helped the

Have you ever put much thought into how an uneducated woman with a disability in reading and writing, could still find a way to work and fight for not only her rights but others too? Isabella Baumfree was a phenomenal woman . She took a stand for women’s rights, blacks rights, and anti-slavery. She was a well-known abolitionist and orator.Isabella Baumfree, was born in 1797, to parents who were enslaved; she was one of twelve children. She had a rough childhood. She was sold at the age of eleven, along with a flock of sheep for the price of one hundred dollars. She experienced countless beatings and sexual abuse from her master (slave owner). Later, she married a man named Thomas and had children of her own. Her children were eventually sold to different plantations. She was only left with her infant daughter . Isabella Baumfree was a runaway slave. As the result of her children being sold, she was only able to escape to freedom with her infant daughter. After she obtained her freedom ,she went to court and challenged the validity of her son being sold into slavery. She was successful against so many odds in the court case. She won. Isabella Baumfree continued down her religious

It’s the middle of winter in Maycomb, Alabama, it’s the coldest winter since 1885 and it’s the first time it snowed in a while. Nothing seems out of the ordinary when Ms. Maudie’s house started burning. Ms. Maudie’s heroic neighbors such as Mr.Finch and Mr. Avery started taking out some of her valuable furniture from the burning house while the fire department arrived. The fire department sent 3 fire trucks over, 2 of which came from another town. Unfortunately, some of the equipment malfunctioned and they also came late, so they weren’t able to save the house, but they kept it from spreading to the other houses. Ms. Maudie’s tin roof helped put out the fire when her

Three stories of a ten-floor building a the corner of Greens Street and Washington Place were burned yesterday, and while the fire was going on 141 young men and women at least 125 of them mere girls were burned to death or killed by jumping to the pavement below. The building was fireproof. The fire except the furniture and 141 of the 600 men and girls that were employed in its upper three stories. The victims were suffocated or burned to death within the building, but some who found their way to the windows and leaped met death as surely, but perhaps more quickly, on the pavements below.

He made a copy of the article and stuffed it into his pocket. Then he raced home to his computer and tapped into some of the archived, enforcement files. After a diligent search, he found the report about the fire but

On December 2nd around 10:30 a.m., a building in downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota collapsed. Fear stuck the hearts of many as they heard the deafening collapse of a downtown building on 10th Street and Phillips Avenue. Many first responders and police quickly moved to try and find survivors. Hundreds of people waited for survivors to be pulled out from the debris. Cheers erupted when three hours after the collapse, firefighters found Emily Fodness alive underneath the rubble. Sadly, Ethan McMahon, a construction worker, was found dead underneath the rubble almost five and a half hours after Emily was rescued. Hultgren Construction is under investigation for causing the collapse.