Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards - John F. Hogan

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This compelling history chronicles some of the most intense and tragic fires in Chicago's storied meatpacking district.

Chicago's Union Stock Yards made the city "the hog butcher of the world," but the notoriety came at a grievous cost. From their opening on Christmas Day of 1865 to their final closure in July of 1971, The Yards were the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires. That infamous history includes 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 a beef warehouse-the largest death toll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the constant threat of fire as part of the cost of doing business, shrugging it off with an, "It's all right, we're fully covered." For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames again and again, it was an entirely different matter.

Autorentext

A retired on-air reporter for WGN-TV/ Radio, John Hogan is the author of "A Spirit Capable: The Story of Commonwealth Edison."Alex Burkholder was an investigative news producer for WGN-TV/Radio. He is a founding member of the Fire Museum of Greater Chicago.

Zusammenfassung
Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago's 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 a beef warehouse--the largest death toll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the constant threat of fire as part of the cost of doing business, shrugging it off with an, "e;It's all right, we're fully covered."e; For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames again and again, it was an entirely different matter.

Titel

Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards

Autor

John F. Hogan

EAN

9781614238621

ISBN

978-1-61423-862-1

Format

E-Book (epub)

Hersteller

Arcadia Publishing Inc.