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The Great Chicago Fire at 150
Posted by: John Lentini (IP Logged)
Date: November 03, 2021 08:55AM
The great Chicago fire happened 150 years ago on October 8, 1871. A great deal has been written about this fire and although it is reported that there were many lessons learned, that is apparently not the case.
The fire did start in the O'Leary's barn, but nobody really knows if one of their five cows kicked over a lantern. That seems unlikely. The fire is credited with improving fire safety codes, but that did not help the 600 people who died in the Iroquois Theater fire more than 50 years later. That fire did result in changed building codes and enforcement. [www.smithsonianmag.com]
One delightful irony is that the Chicago fire department chose the site of the O'Leary farm for their fire Academy in 1961.
An in-depth look at the fire at 150 was published in the Chicago Sun-Times on October 8. A link to the article is here.
[chicago.suntimes.com]
The fire did start in the O'Leary's barn, but nobody really knows if one of their five cows kicked over a lantern. That seems unlikely. The fire is credited with improving fire safety codes, but that did not help the 600 people who died in the Iroquois Theater fire more than 50 years later. That fire did result in changed building codes and enforcement. [www.smithsonianmag.com]
One delightful irony is that the Chicago fire department chose the site of the O'Leary farm for their fire Academy in 1961.
An in-depth look at the fire at 150 was published in the Chicago Sun-Times on October 8. A link to the article is here.
[chicago.suntimes.com]
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