Essay about The Chicago Fire Of 1871

They were also arrested. (Auerbach 1688) That's all it took for this riot to come into play, a few people unhappy about the way the police handled the situation. The next thing you know its a few thousand unhappy people.

Historians know where the fire started but not how it started. The fire was started in the barn of the O'Leary family, starting with their barn door. It is known that the fire began there because the fire spotter saw flames coming from that direction. Murphy shows this in the text; "Schaffer signaled down the speaking tube and had his assistant strike Box 342. This sent engines rumbling through the streets — to a location almost a mile away from the O’Learys’ barn." (Jim Murphy, The Great Fire). That being said the O'leary family didn't know how it started either. Luckily, the new fire alarm system did help to alarm the rest of the city.

     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

The Great Chicago Fire was one of the significant devastation that happened in the eighteenth century. Through this tragic event, hundreds of people died and thousands of buildings were completely destroyed in the fire. Before, the city was flourishing as more people traveled and decided to call Chicago their home. After the fire destroyed most of the surrounding area, people began blaming one another for the deaths of all the people. As time passed, Chicago slowly began to rebuild like never before. Although the city of Chicago continued to grow before the fire, after, the city boomed with the abundance of money and people. Moreover, because there was destruction, the people of Chicago, Illinois did not allow a fire to stop them from creating more opportunities for the future. The city has changed from the fire, but because of the help that was received, it was able to get rebuilt, and invite new individuals to explore the wondrous city of Chicago.

From there, a piece of debris was flown onto an oil tanker located across the river in the North Side. The North Side was ablaze. It was a terrible night for many of the residents of the city of Chicago and is one that will go down in infamy until the end of time. The final totals for the fire were at the minimum 300 deaths, 70,000 buildings burned to the ground, 100 thousand people forced to homelessness, 73 miles of street were incinerated, and 200 million dollars in damage.

The wooden city often experienced fires but, on October 8, 1871 the firefighters were already fatigued from a large fire the night before. The previous fire also resulted in the loss of some firefighting equipment. To make matters worse, the city had been experiencing a lengthy dry spell. A steady breeze from the Southwest, in addition to the dry spell which had spanned the length of several months, would make firefighters efforts futile.

The county fire marshal Alan Carson, saw the fire around 1.30 am and he defined the fire was a big one. Added that the weather and

helpless, useless, and lazy like all they cared about was themselves. Yes, while some of them had

   The fire was supposedly caused by Catherine O'Leary's cow who kicked over a lantern, however this is just legend and can't be proven as the actual start of the fire. The fire burned out of control due to the windy quality of the city and possibly even the dry weather. Another contributing factor is that the fire department was sent to the wrong location, which caused them to arrived at the fire later then they should have. The Fire began on the night of October 8th and was finally put out on the 10th. The fire was extinguished by the firefighters, but was also put out due the rain that fell that day. As you can see the fire was very uncontrollable, lasted for a long period of time, and would cause severe damage to the city.

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

The fire started by campers thirty miles north of Winthrop in Okanogan National Forest in the Chewuch river valley. The fire was only 25 acres in size when twenty one Forest Service firefighters were dispatched to the fire.

After demolishing the Worker’s School with bricks and clubs, the raiders went to the Workers' School, and continued the same technique of smashing anything from typewriters to windows. A total of only four radicals escaped this raid by running upstairs and leaping from the windows. The raiders then targeted an alleged Communist headquarters on 1223 Fillmore st., where they struck three men. Following this event, they advanced to the Mission Workers' Neighborhood House on 741 Valencia st. In both of these scenarios, they obstructed the interiors of the buildings, only leaving behind a marred scenery for the public eye to see. After the raiders left the Mission Workers’ Neighborhood House on Valencia st., a crowd of bystanders, that consisted

I can’t remember the year exactly, I was in a fire on the monorail at Disney World, one of the happiest places on the planet. My friend and I were facing backwards in the front car when we noticed as we came around the corner a great orange glow from the back car. The train stopped and people in the back car started climbing out of the windows up on the top of the car. So we were sitting there, smoke-filled the doors popped open and the windows popped open, and we sat there for three hours until the fire department picked everyone off with ladders and cherry pickers.

This learner wonders why they thought there would be a massive amount of looting. There area was flooded, even if they found anything where would they take it? They needed assistance to

Different individuals and community groups who were directly or indirectly affected responded differently to the Black Saturday bushfires. During the early signs of the bushfire, in Marysville and Kingslake, the majority of the citizens were evacuated to nearby towns, but many of the individuals who decided to stay to protect their homes or thought that it was safest to stay perished in the flames.