fires

Text, photos, and illustrations depict the happening of the 1871 Chicago fire.

Fictional story of a brother and sister caught in a forest fire is interleaved with factual information about forest fires and how they are fought.

Jozef, working to secretly infiltrate the gangs that have been victimizing the Polish-American community in Chicago in 1871, forms an unlikely friendship with Bridget, and finds himself scrambling to identify a killer when she is falsely arrested for murder.

"When Henry Cooper sets out on his mail route on Arcadia Street one crisp spring morning, he has no idea that his world is about to change. He is simply enjoying the sunshine as he lights up a cigar and tosses the match to the ground, entirely unaware that he has just started a fire that will destroy a neighborhood and kill a young wife"--Amazon.

Describes the cause, course, and aftermath of the fire which destroyed one third of Chicago in 1871.

Asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story about an amateur smoke jumper who is sent on his first mission to fight fires in the Pacific Northwest.

Nessa must face down her own doubts as well as those of the local townspeople in order to save herself and her students when the schoolhouse is threatened by an unexpected prairie fire.

Describes the events of the Texas City disaster of 1947, in which bags of fertilizer exploded on a docked ship, and discusses its causes, tragic cost, and aftermath.

Presents a historical, partly fictional, account of the Great Fire of London in 1666, describing the origins, fire fighting methods, effects on people, and rebuilding efforts. Contrasts London then and the city now in the areas of population, housing and world trade.