Fire strikes the Chicago Stock Yards
a history of flame and folly in the jungle
by John F. Hogan
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"Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago 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 roll 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 ... For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames again and again, it was an entirely different matter"--Page 2 of cover.
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Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle
2019, Arcadia Publishing
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Fire strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: a history of flame and folly in the jungle
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