Boston on fire
- Authors
- Schorow, Stephanie
- Publisher
- Commonwealth Editions
- Tags
- fire science , fires , massachusetts , fire extinction , history: american , united states - state & local - general , boston , united states - state & local - new england , history , history - u.s.
- ISBN
- 9781933212012
- Date
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.53 MB
- Lang
- en
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index;The fire trail -- Built to burn: kindling fire in early Boston -- Fires of wrath: the 1834 convent fire and the 1837 Broad Street riot -- Built in Boston: the soul of Old Masheen -- Strike the alarm: the nerves of Boston's fire alarm system -- The great fire of 1872: a disaster foretold -- Twice burned in Chelsea: the 1908 and 1973 conflagrations -- The Cocoanut Grove: heat, smoke, and panic -- Death in the Vendome: the perils of firefighting -- Mr. Flare and the ring of fire: arson in Boston
Fires and firefighting in Boston from the seventeenth century to the present. Includes the Great Fire of 1872, the Cocoanut Grove fire, the Vendome fire, and others.