Alex A Burkholder: 2 books
Forgotten Fires of Chicago
The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A historical journey through the city’s catastrophic fires, and the stories of the heroes who fought them.
Chicago’s war against cinder, flame, and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. In 1909, fire ripped through the dynamite room of a staging facility a mile and half off the...
Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards
A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971, including some of the 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...