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	City of Boston
		On November 30, 1961, Box 735 was transmitted for a pier fire at the Castle Island Terminal in South Boston.
		In this short space of time fire and smoke had traveled the full 500 ft length of the pier; the entire substructure of one bay was involved.
		The Boston Fire Department SCUBA team had examined the wooden fire walls between piers and had discovered that they had held up but were now in danger of failing.
	www.cityofboston.gov /fire/journal/dynamite_it.asp (596 words)

	boston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Boston is the county seat of Suffolk County.
		Boston grew rapidly and became wealthy as the primary port for ships bound to Great Britain and the West Indies from the colonies.
		Boston is bordered by the cities of Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, and Quincy, and the towns of Winthrop, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, and Milton.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Boston.html (1685 words)

	Great Boston Fire of 1872 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was Boston's largest urban fire and still one of the most costly fire-related property losses in American history.
		The fire was finally contained 12 hours later after it had consumed about 65 acres (263,000 m²) of Boston's downtown, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused $73.5 million in damage.
		Boston's Fire Chief John Damrell was credited for stopping the fire despite the circumstances.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Boston_Fire_of_1872 (740 words)

	Cyprus holiday villas - Travel Articles Boston
		Boston is the county seat of Suffolk County.
		Boston outnumbered Plymouth from the outset, and the city, as the center of Massachusetts Bay Colony, grew rapidly and became wealthy as the primary port for ships bound to Great Britain and the West Indies from the colonies.
		Boston is bordered by the cities of Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, and Quincy, and the towns of Winthrop, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, Canton, and Milton.
	www.rentcyprus.co.uk /wikipedia/boston.htm (2296 words)

	All About Boston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Boston is the capital of and the largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
		Greater Boston is one of the top-ten largest metropolitan areas in the United States, the fifteenth in the Americas, and the one of the top-fifty largest in the world.
		Boston College was the first institution of higher education to be founded in Boston, though it moved from the city's South End to then-rural Chestnut Hill to escape Boston's rapid urbanization in the late nineteenth century.
	www.juiceenewsdaily.com /0405/travel/boston.html (2766 words)

	Great Boston Fire of 1872 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was (State capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services) Boston's largest urban fire and still one of the most costly fire related property losses in (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American history.
		The (A very intense and uncontrolled fire) conflagration began at 7:20PM on November 9, 1872 in the basement of a commercial warehouse at 83 - 87 Summer Street in Boston, (A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies) Massachusetts.
		The fire was finally contained 12 hours later after it had consumed about 65 acres (263,000 m²) of Boston's downtown, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused $73.5 million in damage.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/great_boston_fire_of_1872.htm (733 words)

	~ Firestorms & Wildfires ~
		A surface fire is the most common type and burns along the floor of a forest, moving slowly and killing or damaging trees.
		FIRE BEHAVIOR AND FIRELINE SAFETY The main physical aspects of forest fire propagation are described with the intention of illustrating its complexity and the risks associated with fire-fighting activities.
		The various modes of fire propagation and corresponding heat transfer mechanisms are described in relation to their effects on personnel working on the fireline.
	www.ssrsi.org /nd1/fire.htm (1307 words)

	Boston, Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Founded in 1630, Boston is named after Boston, England, the town in Lincolnshire from which the Pilgrim Fathers originated.
		The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and several of the early battles of the revolutionary war (such as the Battle of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston) occurred near the city.
		Boston is bordered by the cities of Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, and Quincy, and the towns of Winthrop, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, Canton, and Milton.
	www.asinah.net /en/wikipedia/b/bo/boston__massachusetts.html (2751 words)

	Encyclopedia: Great Boston Fire of 1872 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		City Fire Hydrant A fire hydrant (also known colloquially as in fire plug in the USA,) is a source of water provided in most urban, suburban, and rural areas with municipal water service to enable firefighters to tap into the municipal water supply to assist in extinguishing a fire.
		The Boston Globe is the most widely-circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region.
		Jump to: navigation, search Artists rendering of the fire, by John R Chapin, originally printed in Harpers Weekly The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from October 8 to October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying several square miles in Chicago, Illinois.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Great-Boston-Fire-of-1872 (1497 words)

	Jamaica Plain Historical Society - 'Locales' Editor - - Thomas G. Plant Shoe Factory Fire
		For the first time in the city’s history all but one of Boston’s engine companies were at a single fire with additional apparatus called in from surrounding communities, while 23 Metropolitan Boston municipalities manned Boston’s firehouses.
		Of the fires this chronicler has ever seen this was by far the tops.
		Miraculously, there were no serious injuries, the fire being confined to the factory, but all personal possessions were lost in the raging conflagration.
	www.jphs.org /locales/2004/1/5/thomas-g-plant-shoe-factory-fire.html (812 words)

	Boston 1872 Fire
		Great fires plagued America's cities during the 19th century, such as the well-known fire in Chicago in 1871.
		However most of the horses in the Boston area were stricken by an epizootic flu forcing the fire department to organize teams of men to pull each piece of equipment to a fire.
		The Gunpowder: During the fire a committee of concerned citizens gathered in city hall to lobby Mayor Gaston to permit the use of gunpowder to demolish buildings in the path of the fire.
	www.damrellsfire.com /Boston_1872_Fire_1.html (871 words)

	City of Boston
		Boston followed in June 1917 when Rescue Company 1 was organized at the quarters of Engine Co. 25 and Ladder Co. 8 in Fort Hill Square.
		The Boston Fire Department has fought many memorable fires under merciless conditions during its long history but few tours of duty in modern history measure up to the night tour of January 22-January 23, 1976.
		The story of the East Boston fire has been forgotten, if not lost, by many, pushed off the front pages by the terrible loss of life at the Cocoanut Grove only two weeks later on November 28, 1942.
	www.cityofboston.gov /fire/journal (570 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1872 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ruins left by the fire The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was Bostons largest urban fire and still one of the most costly fire related property losses in American history.
		Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939), born Pearl Zane Gray (he later dropped Pearl and changed the a to an e in Grey) was an American author of popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West.
		Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 - September 13, 1872), German philosopher, fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, was born in Landshut, Bavaria and died in Rechenberg (since 1899 a district of Nuremberg).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1872 (5291 words)

	GREAT BOSTON FIRE OF 1872 FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The conflagration began at 7:20PM on November_9, 1872 in the basement of a commercial warehouse at 83 - 87 Summer Street in Boston, Massachusetts.
		Fire departments from every state in New_England arrived on trains carrying pumps, fire fighters, more spectators.
		Old_South_Meeting_House on Washington Street, the church in which the Boston Tea Revolt was organized, was rescued from the fire by a citizens brigade of wet blankets.
	www.witwib.com /Great_Boston_Fire_of_1872 (718 words)

	The disaster that reshaped a city - The Boston Globe
		Though small by comparison, the fire destroyed much of downtown and still ranks as the fifth-most-destructive fire in the nation's history, in terms of property loss, according to the National Fire Protection Association.
		Boston Fire Chief John Stanhope Damrell had predicted the disaster after the Chicago fire of 1871 and had begged for new, multi-outlet hydrants and bigger water pipes for six years.
		Boston lost 776 buildings, including Trinity Church, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and the Shreve, Crump and Low jewelry store, as the fire spread over 65 acres.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/11/the_disaster_that_reshaped_a_city (838 words)

	Boston History at Boston MLS Homes Real Estate Listings
		Boston was founded on November 17, 1630, by Puritan colonists from England, called the Pilgrim fathers, on a peninsula called Shawmut by its original Native American inhabitants.
		The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and several early battles occurred in or near the city, including the Battle of Lexington and Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston.
		Boston responded by initiating various urban renewal projects, including the demolition of the old West End neighborhood and the construction of Government Center.
	www.bostonareahomesre.com /mlsblog/?p=15 (1013 words)

	BURNING ISSUES: Boston's Old State House documents city's fire history
		The Boston Massacre took place outside, and the Declaration of Independence was first read to the citizens of Boston from its balcony on July 18, 1776.
		The 1711 fire that burned a third of the town, for instance, marked the last time the Puritan interpretation of fires - messages from an angry God - held sway.
		All of the fires were tragedies, Hill says, but some good came from each disaster, including better building codes, better fire response techniques and opportunities to redesign the city.
	archive.tri-cityherald.com /travel/stories/nation/statehouse.html (801 words)

	Posts tagged with fire \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Live, From Outer Space: rural fires [1, 2], The Haze in China [1,2, 3] and its movement, aerosols, and the brothers carbon monoxide [a photochemical smog agent] and carbon dioxide.
		These fires typically result in little damage to equipment, cause considerable injury to patients, and are a complete surprise to the staff.
		A large reason for the size of this fire is the 1999 blowdown of 400,000 acres of forests, that's 600 square miles of dead wood waiting to burn.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/fire (1873 words)

	CURP: Center for Urban and Regional Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis.
		Boston: The Muriel G. and Norman B. Leventhal Family Foundation, 1999.
		Sammarco, Anthony M. Great Boston Fire of 1872 (Images of America Series).
	www.curp.neu.edu /research/bibliography.htm (532 words)

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		The Great Boston Fire of November 9 and 10, 1872, just one year after the Chicago Fire, was the largest disaster, in terms of scale, to ever hit Boston (Illustrated famously in Figure 5: The Great Fire At Boston')">Figure 5 by Currier and Ives).
		The fire was confounded by the fact that all of the 90 horses in the city which were used to pull the fire wagons were out of commission due to an epidemic horse disease sweeping the city, and thus all of the wagons had to be pulled to the site by humans ("City Fires").
		The fire, however renewed interest in expanding the building to the entire block, since the rest of the block was destroyed, and with some difficulty with land owners, and a minor scandal over the price paid for the land.
	web.mit.edu /cposs/city/time.html (1865 words)

	1872 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
		May 10 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States, although she is a year too young to qualify and does not appear on the ballot.
		November 9 - Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street (the two day event destroyed about 65 acres (0.3 km²) of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused US$60 million in damage).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1872 (847 words)

	Boston Fire Museum History
		Fire Department (BFD), in its present structure, is the result of a reorganization which was instituted in 1859-60 as the conversion to Steam Engines from hand pumps took place.
		Horses, which had pulled fire apparatus since the mid-1850's, began to be replaced with motor apparatus about 1914.
		Among them were the "Great Salem Fire" of 1914, the "Great Chelsea Fire(s)" of 1908 and 1973, the Cocoanut Grove Fire of 1942, the Biddeford (ME) fires of 1947, the Sleeper St. Fire (1 block away) of 1948 and the Bellflower St. Fire of 1964.
	www.bostonfiremuseum.com /history_bfd.html (893 words)

	The Boston Historical Society and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The peninsula which became known as Boston was originally referred to as Shawmut (believed to mean "Living Waters") by the Algonquin Indians.
		Most of the colony's residents settled along what is now State Street (then Great Street, later King) and Cornhill (now Washington Street.) The colonists settled at this location due to its proximity to the both the harbor and a fresh water spring on what is still referred to as Spring Street.
		No. Boston was originally a hilly peninsula, connected to the mainland only by a thin strip of land, known as Boston Neck.
	www.bostonhistory.org /faq.php (1612 words)

	The City Record and Boston News-Letter: Boston Maps
		Boston's New City Hall is the result of an architectural competition in 1962 won by the firm of Kallmann, McKinnell and Knowles.
		The Boston and Worcester Railroad, taken in connection with the Western Railroad, may be considered the backbone of the frame of Railroads in Massachusetts.
		WGBH Channel 44 will broadcast Damrell's Fire Sunday April 2, 2006, at 10 P.M. It is the story of the great Boston fire of 1872 and of Boston's fire chief, John Damrell whom the film credits with saving the city from a far worse fate.
	bostonhistory.typepad.com /notes_on_the_urban_condit/boston_maps/index.html (8586 words)

	Leonard G. Dunn, at 70; was Malden's assessor - The Boston Globe
		was such a fire buff he'd keep a scanner on in the house day and night, chasing the flames whenever they sparked.
		Dunn's interest in fire and firefighters began while growing up with a father who was a deputy fire chief, required to keep a fire alarm in the house.
		Dunn was a member of several organizations, including the 100 Club, which held business functions and frequently donated to charitable causes, and the Box 52 Association, a fire enthusiasts' group named after the firebox that sounded the alarm for the Great Boston Fire of 1872.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/08/02/leonard_g_dunn_at_70_was_maldens_assessor (499 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Patrick Donahoe
		He emigrated to Boston when ten years of age with his parents, and at fourteen was apprenticed to a printer.
		He worked on "The Jesuit" when that paper was started by Bishop Fenwick in 1832, and after the bishop relinquished its ownership, he carried it on for some time with H.L. Devereaux under the new title of "The Literary and Catholic Sentinel".
		The great Boston fire of 1872 destroyed his publishing plant.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05115c.htm (299 words)

	William Delano and the Great Boston Fire of 1872 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ordered, That His Honor the Mayor be requested to appoint a scientific commission, consisting of five persons, to investigate the cause of the recent fire and the efforts made for its suppression, and report to the City Council in print; the expense attending such investigation to be charged to the appropriation for Incidentals.
		We next went from there to the corner of Broad and Custom-House streets I think, and ran a stream through to the corner of Milk and Oliver streets, and were stationed in where the fire was stopped that afternoon at three and a half or quarter to four o'clock.
		It was my idea that the two Boston firemen were in there, but in conversation with the company they seemed to think that they were somewhere else, and I supposed that they knew more about it than I did.
	www.delanoye.org /primary/Wm_Delano_Boston_Fire.html (1041 words)

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