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Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle (Disaster)

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Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago’s Union Stock Yards, the web site of nearly 300 extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971, including one of the crucial 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 within the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards thought to be the constant threat of fire as a part of the price of doing business, shrugging it off with an, “It is all right, we’re fully covered.” For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames over and over again, it was once an entirely different matter.

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