London in the seventeenth century was a city filled with people, homes and buildings constructed of wood, and narrow roads. However, on the evening of September 2 this played a large part in a disastrous occurrence that would change London forever. In 1666 Thomas Farrinor, a baker, unsuccessfully extinguished his oven causing the Great fire of London to burn from September 2 to September 6, leaving thousands of London’s citizens homeless and churchless. On the dry summer night of September 2, 1666 in King Charles II’s home near the London Bridge, sparks from the bakers oven began to spread causing the nearby homes and buildings to burn. The Great Fire began in the bakery then spread to Stars Inn where it contained flammable equipment, which turned the fire into uncontrollable flames. …show more content…
Containing the flames became “difficult and time-consuming; those doing it were liable to being sued to compensation; and unless the timbers and other flammable material from the demolished buildings were removed from the site, they could still ignite and allow the fire to spread” (Hanson 29). As the panic and frustration continued, people began to gather their belongings and abandon London through the Thames River. Those without a roof seeked protection in hills and the rural part of the city. It took a couple of days for the fire to be put out due to the fact that there was no actual fire station procedure just buckets. After the fire was contained, about 100,000 people were left without a roof over their head and almost 90 churches were destroyed, including St. Paul’s
The Armenian genocide ruins Vahan Kenderian’s picture-perfect life. Vahan is the son of the richest Armenian in Turkey and before the war begins, he always has food in his belly and a roof over his head in the book Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian. Life is absolutely quintessential for Vahan, until the war starts in 1915, when he endures many deaths of his family, losses of his friends, and frightening experiences in a short amount of time. He is a prisoner of war early in the book and is starved for days. As he goes through life, he is very unlucky and experiences other deaths, not just the deaths of his family. Vahan ultimately becomes the man his family would want him to be.
The Chicago Fire of 1871 In the 19th century, the population in Chicago was quickly rising to great numbers. In 1850, the population reached 30,000. Areas in all parts of Chicago started to become extremely over crowded, especially downtown. At this point, all structures were built out of wood, including buildings, streets, and even sidewalks (“Chicago Fire of 1871”). About one hundred days before the great fire occurred, not even an inch of rain had fallen throughout the city, and heavy, strong winds were blowing through Southwest.
The One Meridian Plaza was a 38-story office building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The building was built in 1972 and destructed in 1992, due to a fire that engulfed eight floors and scorched for nineteen hours. Three firefighters lost their lives battling the biggest high-rise office building fire the city of Philadelphia ever encountered. The fire started in an office room on the vacant 22nd floor. Investigators said the cause of the fire was due to combustion of a pile of linseed oil-soaked rags.
In the case, “Facing a Fire” prepared by Ann Buchholtz, there are several problems and issues to identify in determining if Herman Singer should rebuild the factory due to a fire or retire on his insurance proceeds. I believe that this case is about social reform and self-interest. I think that Singer needs to ask himself, what is in the firm’s best economic interests. There are several things to question within this case, what should Herman Singer do and why, should he rebuild the factory or begin retirement, if he rebuilds, should he relocate the firm to an area where wages are lower and what provisions, if any, should Singer make for his employees as well as for the community?
March 25th 1911 is the day one of the largest deadly workplace fires occurred. 146 factory workers died on this day as they fought to escape the Triangle Shirtwaist factory only to find locked exits, and faulty fire escapes. The public witnessed this display of poor fire safety and was quickly filled with sorrow. William Gunn Shepard claimed, “I remember their great strike of last year, in which these girls demanded more sanitary workrooms, and more safety precautions in the shops…. These dead bodies told the result.” This fire is often referred to as the tragedy that awakened the consciousness of America. The Triangle Fire showed the public the horrific working conditions that thousands of employees had at the time. The death of these 146
No report about what happens to his wife and kids. Many of the blacks people homes were being burned down. According to Walter White another angry white mob trapped a five colored people in a burning house. Four of them burned to death, one was able to escape but was shot down and thrown back in the fire. As the mobs continued on destroying and killing all through downtown, one of the them were lead by a printing plant employee who was paid forty-eight dollars a week; set fire and destroyed the printing planting. Killed while attacking the plant (Walter White). The white rioters continued on and set homes, buildings on fire which spread heavily (Gates). Gates continued that armed whites broke into homes and businesses and forcing everybody
There are many rumors but no one is exactly sure how the Great Chicago Fire. On of the rumors is that Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a lamp that started the fire. This is an excuse to blame the Irish immigrants. They weren’t in favor in 1871. (Stein, R. Conrad, 16) Daniel Sullivan, a visitor to the neighborhood, was outside. Mr. Sullivan cried out fire around 8:30. Flames were coming out of the barn filled with cows. (Pascal, Janet B., and Kevin McVeigh, 41) The origin of the fire wasn’t known to everyone. Police officers were able to shoot any person who looked suspicious. (Angle, Paul M. 22) Everyone was tense over how exactly the Great Chicago Fire started.
The fire of October 8, 1871, that started atis known for being the Great Chicago Fire and it earned it. The fire had annihilated seventy-three miles of street, destroyed 17,500 buildings, causing $200 million of property damage, made 100,000 homeless and claimed 300 souls. How it started nobody knows, but they blamed Mrs. Catherine O'Leary and her cows. In 1871, Chicago suffered from a huge drought from early July until October with less than three inches of rain fall (DestroyedTheEntireCity). It was very dry year leaving the ground barren and the wooden city susceptible to fires (History Files). Over the year of 1871 an average of two fires sprang to life every day, but in the past week twenty fires popped to life (U.S.History). On October 7 a big fire popped to life which firemen put out with little to no effort, and they thought they could battle any fire until they ha...
Before the fire broke out on Sunday night, October 8, 1871 there had been a large drought causing everything to be dry and extremely flammable. Many fires had been breaking out in Chicago. Records show that in 1870 the fire fighters went to nearly 600 fires. On Saturday night there had been a large fire that destroyed about four blocks and lasted for 16 hours. Another reason why everything in Chicago was so flammable was because almost the entire city was made out of wood. It was a lot worse in the middle class and poor sections of the town (19). Just about every house was made out of wood. Even buildings that claimed to be fire proof had wood roofs covered with tar. The richer part of town had stone and brick homes, but wooden interiors, wooden stables, and wooden storage buildings (Cromie, 81). Chicago was built on marshland and every time it rained the city flooded, so to help this problem the roads were made out of wood and elevated above the waterline. The day the fire started there were over 55 miles of pine-block street and 600 miles of wooden sidewalks. “Chicago in 1871 was a city ready to burn,” according to Jim Murphy, author of The Great Fire (Murphy, 18).
The Great Fire of London, as documented by Samuel Pepys and other writers, began on the early morning of Sunday, September 2nd 1666 when a fire erupted at Pudding Lane in Thomas Farriner’s bakery (Dailey and Tomedi 43). Farriner, who was the king’s baker, went to fetch a candle some time close to midnight. While going to get the candle, Farriner observed that his oven was not lit and that there were no embers. However, two hours later Farriner and his family awoke feeling “almost choked with smoked” (Shields 80). Farriner quickly dashed over to the top of the stairs and found flames making their way up from the shop below. According to Farriner, the fire was not in the proximity of his over nor the pile of wood close to his house (Shields 81). However this and the actual cause of the fire in the house are debatable due to Farriner possibly attempting to remove any blame placed on him from the fire by lying in his testimony of the in...
In the year 1666, one of the most horrific, destructive fires started in London. A bakery on Pudding Lane destroyed just about all of London, the fire left nothing for the people living there and burnt down everything. The Great Fire of London left the city in ruins, followed by fear and sorrow, and yet it provided the city with an opportunity to build an entirely new London.
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Sunday September 2, 1666 at 2 a.m. was the day when the fire began (Cowie, 59). It had all began in a baker’s house due to a spark that was “left” in one of his ovens. ‘”, all that was needed was a spark. This was provided at the house of Thomas Farynor, the King’s baker in Pudding Lane…”’ (“London’s Burning: The Great Fire”, 1). In this area was known as a poor area and it was also very dirty. All the houses were made out of wood, which fed the fire and it started to spread. The baker’s house was the first house to burn down and that is also where the first tragedy took place. The wind was strong during this time and as it blew it would push the fire and help it spread through the city. The people started waking up due to the smell of the smoke and they tried to put the fire out as fast as they could. The fire fighters even tired to stop the fire but it was to big for one truck to handle. One of the residents ran to the Mayors house to warm him of what was happening. When told of what was happening, “…the L...
“With great power comes great responsibility”. This was said by someone who had a profound way with words, but I'm not sure exactly who it was, mainly because it has been said in every known origin story of a superhero I can think of, so I guess it's safe to say it is motivational. Imagine that you could have one super power. What would it be and how would you use it? What would be your kryptonite? In all honesty I can say I have thought about this particular question too much in my 17 years of being alive, but maybe that's just because I am a huge Marvel fan. Being the comic book nerd that I am I can honestly say Stan Lee is a genius and sometimes I love him for his writing and sometimes I hate him for it. If I were to have one superpower
Over the last few years, there has been an unusual amount of devastating wildfires reported around the globe. Alaska, Indonesia, Canada, California, Spain, Portugal, and Chile have all been affected by the deadly fires. The number of deaths from wildfires has greatly increased over the last few decades.