The Great Baltimore Fire.THE GREAT BALTIMORE FIRE The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 raged in Baltimore, Maryland, from 10:48 a.m. Sunday, February 7, to 5:00 p.m. Monday, February 8, 1904. Over 1,231 firefighters were required to bring the blaze under control. . Peter B. Petersen. 2004. Read by Ross Ballard II. 4 cds. 4 hrs. Mountain Whispers Audiobooks. 0-9717981-4-5. $28.95. Vinyl; content, reader notes. JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association. It started as a little fire in the Hearst building on a bitterly cold February night in 1905. Due to a cost-cutting measure, there was no night watchman WATCHMAN. An officer in many cities and towns, whose duty it is to watch during the night and take care of the property of the inhabitants. 2. He possesses generally the common law authority of a constable (q.v. on duty to observe or extinguish it. Less than 36 hours later, a major part of the city of Baltimore had burned to the ground. This audiobook recounts those horrific hours. It chronicles the bravery of firefighters from Baltimore, Pennsylvania, Washington, DC and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. who rushed to the blaze, sometimes in frigid, unheated railroad cars, and whose heroic efforts finally extinguished the fire, miraculously without the loss of life. Listeners see the growing pains of a young country--because fire hydrants were not nationally standardized, the Washington DC fire hoses would not fit the Baltimore hydrants. Listeners hear of the ingenuity of business people desperately trying to save their businesses, sometimes successfully, and the kindness and decency of ordinary people who brought sandwiches and food to the hungry and exhausted firefighters. Ballard narrates this exciting story as a fast-paced dramatization dram·a·ti·za·tion n. 1. The act or art of dramatizing: the dramatization of a novel. 2. A work adapted for dramatic presentation: , using a background of lively sound effects. Susan Offner, Teacher, Lexington HS, Lexington, MA |
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