Joseph Awe the owner of a pub in Harrisville WI. On September 11 2006 a fire was started at the pub while Awe was at home about 30 miles away. After extinguishing the fire, firefighters labeled Awe as a suspect and the fire was not listed as an accident. The insurance company that was handling the case hired a fire investigator to help determine if the fire was an accident. If the fire was deemed an accident the insurance company was liable to pay at least $200,000.
This is believed to be throughout the whole house. The house rapidly went into a free burn. Fueled by the gasoline spread throughout the house, the flames quickly took off to engulf the entire area. After most of the home was in flames, oxygen regulated smoldering began. This will spread a poisonous gas called carbon monoxide throughout the area.
I, myself, can think of many possibilities of what caused the fire. One possibilities could have been that he was making something on the stove and didn’t notice and/or didn’t smell something weird. Another possibility is that the smoke detector
September 1st, 1894, the Great Hinckley Fire took place killing over 400 people. In the book, The Burning, by Richard Snow, the experience of the Hinckley citizens comes to life. According to the Hinckley Fire Museum, the flames were four and a half miles in the sky and people as far away as Iowa could see it. For my book review, I have read and summarized Snow’s Book.
David Von Drehle is the author behind the book, “Triangle: The Fire That Changed America”. This book is about the facts, stories, and trial of what occurred on March 25, 1911 at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. This fire was the worst workplace disaster in New York history until 9/11. The fire that took place left workers of that factory and many others with the goal to change the working conditions and fundamental reforms. Drehle has always known his future involved writing.
In today’s society, building regulations have made the buildings themselves better equipped for the possibility of a fire. Jonathan Fowler, a level three local firefighter volunteer in Cave City, Arkansas for the past nine years, said the fire of 1911 burned the whole building in a total of eighteen minutes. As a result, each room in a standard government building can help contain a fire for fifteen minutes and keep the flames from spreading further and causing even more destruction. Another example of a positive result from the fire is within two years of the tragedy, more than thirty laws had been passed to help prevent anything tragic that can be averted from happening again (Wignot). Another result of the fire was it made Americans realize that those women who burned were technically citizens of the United States of America, but because they were immigrants, they were discriminated against and not treated fairly (Cornell).
T he Great Chicago Fire was one of the most devastating disasters in history. It killed hundreds and left over 100,000 homeless. At the time, 1871, Chicago was one of the busiest cities in the country. To make sure everyone had a place to live, city officials looked for cheap building materials. The cheapest by far was wood.
Once out the fuel went onto the black-market and sold quickly over the first few months of the event. People burned through what fuel
Along time ago in a city far far away from here a city called Chicago, in 1871 chicago was lit in an unknown way. All we do know is that it was a disaster. The author Jim Murphy gives us plenty of reasons why the city was ready to burn for example, There had been a long lasting drought for several months therefore it was very dry, and the town was basically made of wood and could ignite any time it wanted to. Also to made it even worse the roofs on buildings were made of tar,and there were several buildings were filled with tons of hay and coal literally.
Before 1942, very little was known about burn treatments. New methods were developed would help in saving many lives during the following years. If a similar structure built today were built in the same way The Cocoanut Grove was built it would definitely go through the same fate if a fire had occurred. If the structure did not have enough emergency doors or had locked ones it would make the evacuation process extremely harder leading people to panic and to several accidents and most likely deaths.
If there were ever a fire in a building, I would not want it on my conscience. Afterword, a suspicious fire did occur at the I-Hotel on March 13, 1969 which killed three tenants. Because of this, Shorenstein, reiterated his point of the building being “deteriorated and unlivable.” That the tenants wouldn’t have died if they’d evacuated the building sooner. However, this didn’t deter activists and the tenants.
Another result of the fire was the creation of the American Society of Safety Engineers. Which was Designed for all buildings to fall under the code to make them safer? The American Society of Safety Engineers did just that, and there has not been any other building tragedy fire not caused by arson as severe as the shirtwaist fire. I will now like to return to the original question.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a devastating fire that killed 146 girls in New York City (Leap for Life, Leap for Death). At this time, citizens of New York were furious and demanded that the government do something to prevent future tragedies. The government responded and the reforms that the government made, it changed the future of New York industry. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, one of history’s deadliest fires, came as a result of outrageously unsafe working conditions, led to a high death toll and injury total, but, ultimately resulted in reforms that helped safeguard future factory workers.
The Cedar Fire was not the only fire burning, there were several other fires burning in California, limiting resources to San Diego County (CDF, 2004). The size of the fire crossed city and county jurisdictions requiring a multiple agency response, but coordination and communication was difficult due agencies not being fully equipped to response amongst each other (CDF, 2004). The fire not only raged through the wildlands of San Diego County, but destroyed planned communities and businesses, closed freeways, suspended flights, and even cancelled Monday Night Football (which was to be held at Qualcomm Stadium), since the stadium was being used as the main evacuation center (Dillion, 2003). The Cedar Fire was the worst case scenario, but many lessons were
It is still uncertain who or what actually caused the fire. Tacitus who is Roman orator and public official, was one of the greatest historian and one of the greatest prose stylists using Latin language. He mentioned that Christians confessed to the crime, but it is not known whether these confessions were induced by torture. However, accidental fires were common in ancient Rome. In fact, Rome suffered other large fires in 69 and in 80AD.
