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Just finished watching a documentary on the Great Boston Fire of 1872 on a local PBS channel. Entitled "Damrell's Fire" lots of vintage horse drawn steamers footage.
Damrell's Fire
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"Damrell's Fire" movie trailer
Website:
http://www.damrellsfire.com/index.html
On a mild November weekend in 1872, a spark in a downtown basement turned Boston into a firestorm. In less than twenty hours, the fire reduced the city?s commercial center to sixty-five acres of rubble. Its destructive ferocity still ranks with the Chicago Fire of 1871 as one of the country?s worst. But the Boston Fire was different. Its loss of thirty people, while tragic, paled beside Chicago?s three hundred dead and one hundred thousand homeless. Boston credited its deliverance, to John S. Damrell, its courageous Fire Chief, who directed the defense that saved the city?s densely-populated neighborhoods from Chicago?s fate, and would forever change firefighting history.
http://www.bostonfirehistory.org/firestorygreatfireof1872.html
Historian for NFPA covers 1872 fire, Cocoanut Grove fire and Vendome collapse:
Boston Fire Trail
Website:
http://www.damrellsfire.com/index.html
On a mild November weekend in 1872, a spark in a downtown basement turned Boston into a firestorm. In less than twenty hours, the fire reduced the city?s commercial center to sixty-five acres of rubble. Its destructive ferocity still ranks with the Chicago Fire of 1871 as one of the country?s worst. But the Boston Fire was different. Its loss of thirty people, while tragic, paled beside Chicago?s three hundred dead and one hundred thousand homeless. Boston credited its deliverance, to John S. Damrell, its courageous Fire Chief, who directed the defense that saved the city?s densely-populated neighborhoods from Chicago?s fate, and would forever change firefighting history.
http://www.bostonfirehistory.org/firestorygreatfireof1872.html
Historian for NFPA covers 1872 fire, Cocoanut Grove fire and Vendome collapse:
Boston Fire Trail