... all parties on scene of the fire to anticipate the next step, which allows fighting the fire easier. Along with not having a sufficient action plan, another fire had gone on that night at a pharmacy; when the guard realized there was another fire (The Great Chicago Fire) he sent the firemen in the wrong direction.16 But the firemen are not the only ones to blame, once the fire department became professional they ... , yet this fire killing over 300 people, leaving 100,000 homeless, leveling 18,000 buildings, and completely destroying the business districts along with thousands of homes an...

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... in so close that you would feel like you were the photographer. Every hair in his face was visibly seen. The photo was so clear that you could see every single loose strand of hair that was flying in the wind. All I could do was stand there in utter amazement. Man with long pipe (1990) was the second photograph. It was a full body photo of a man ... sitting in a chair holding a long pipe. This picture was so beautiful and so textured that you could see the cracks in the door behind him. It looks as though the photo was taken in doors ... trouble or trying to be grown. In this photo, th...

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... get out walk probably three quarters of a mile down a fence row, sat down and called for coyotes with no luck, the whole time the wind is blowing unusually hard. We get up after probably forty five minutes and walk back to the truck. When we get back to the truck we notice that we can hardly see our own tire tracks from where we had came ... . And just barely make out that a vehicle had gone down the road in front of us. Being that we know that the ... a road that has been plowed. Later the next week we went back to the same place and looked at the road that we had been on. Most of the ...

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... America. Taking 1200 lives and destroying 1.25 million acres of land I would have to say that the fire did a lot of damage, but things touch people in different ways. The fire burned rapidly to 16 other towns, but the damage in Peshtigo was the worst. The city was gone in an hour. In Peshtigo alone, 800 lives were lost. Yet most people have never heard of ... the Great Peshtigo Fire because, strangely, it occurred at the exact same time as The Chicago Fire. The fire in Chicago that may or may ... hand "This has been an eventful day. Last night about 9:30 a fire broke out here and from ...

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... bright sun. Especially in a city like Chicago; a city that suffers through extreme springs and falls full of heavy rain and strong wind gusts, and winters cluttered with frozen roads, inches of snow, and deadening temperatures. These extremes are equally significant during the summer months, however, and most people, including those that can facilitate safety from it, fail to recognize its quiet, slow, and ... employers such as Sears, Roebuck and Co., Western Electric Company, and International Harvester began systematically closing their doors. By 1970, 75 percent of the businesses tha...

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