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The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904

dhammond — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:31:29 -0800

"To suppose that the spirit of our people will not rise to the occasion is to suppose that our people are not genuine Americans. We shall make the fire of 1904 a landmark not of decline but of progress."

Great Balls of fire

alms — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:41:52 -0800

Maybe it's not really news because no one was killed, but you'd think that more people would notice when a massive explosion in suburban Boston totals 60 buildings, knocks out windows for a half mile around, knocks people out of bed in the middle of the night, and registers on the Richter scale 30 miles away.

The clay characters themselves are not kept after filming because they disintegrate

magullo — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:35:57 -0800

Classic Aardman (of Wallace and Gromit fame) animation stuff up in flames

A Burning Question

jonp72 — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:14:22 -0800

Fire Disaster, What Have We Learned? The recent Great White nightclub tragedy has made it imperative to study previous deadly fires in public buidlings, such as the Iroquois Theater, the Cocoanut Grove, the Beverly Hills Supper Club, the Natchez Rhythm Club, the Happy Land Social Club, and the 1944 Hartford circus fire. The sad thing is that many of these deaths could have been preventable.