On a cold December 30, 1903, parents and children were headed to the Iroquois Theater in downtown Chicago to see Mr. Bluebeard. The theater had just opened that day and was said to be “absolutely fireproof;” in the end, the exact opposite was true. The tragedy begun when an arc light shortened and ignited a drop curtain. When that happened audience member’s panicked and began scrambling to escape but due to the over-packed crowd there was no way to escape thorough the small main doorway. (Sauberman) Ultimately, due to misjudgments and mistakes the Iroquois Theater burned down, killing a total of 602 people; because of this, stricter theater fire codes were passed.
It is about the fires heading towards the pub, destroying the valley on its way, but it can’t destroy the pub as it was flooded, the fire was travelling at 172 km an hour and it knocked them flying. Jim and Graeme fought the fire for an hour and forty-five minutes but they just couldn’t take It anymore. The use of onomatopoeia in “everywhere you looked was bright pink. And it was getting redder and redder. And all of a sudden it just went BANG”.
Friday, March 27, 2009 Triangle Fire and Rose Schneiderman's Speech One of the greatest industrial tragedies in U.S. history occurred on March 25, 1911, when 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, died in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist company in New York City. The victims had been trapped by blocked exit doors and faulty fire escapes. The aftermath of the catastrophe brought grief and recriminations. Protest rallies and memorial meetings were held throughout the city. During one meeting at the Metropolitan Opera House, tension broke out between the working-class Lower East Siders who filled the galleries (and saw class solidarity as the ultimate solution to the problems of industrial safety) and the middle- and upper-class women in the boxes who sought reforms like creation of a bureau of fire prevention.
FSE 101: FIRE PREVENTION RESEARCH PROJECT THE HAPPY LAND FIRE BY RAY CHESNEY EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY Introduction: The Happy Land Fire was an arson fire that killed 87 people on March 25, 1990 in the Happy Land Social Club, The Bronx, New York. Most of the victims were young ethnic Hondurans. Event History: 87 people died of smoke inhalation at the “Happy Land Social Club”. The fire was started by a 36-year-old man who earlier had been ejected from the club after an altercation with his former girlfriend, who worked at the club. He went to a nearby gas station, filled a plastic container with a dollar’s worth of gasoline, and returned to the club.
Pangloss contracted syphilis from Pacquette, and he relates his condition to chocolate and cochineal because they contaminate the source of generation, frequently impede propagation itself, and oppose to the great end of nature. Question 4 4-a. While en route to Lisbon, James drowned after a shipwreck and earthquake occurred eventually throwing him overboard while trying to save a brutish sailor. 4-b. Auto da fe means a public ceremony to burn a few people alive by a slow fire.
On May seventh 1915 there was a very sad tragic day for 128 Americans and families. A “merchant” ship known as the Lusitania was sailing close to the shore where German U-boats like to hang around and was torpedoed and had many people die from an explosion. The British still to this day blame it all on the Germans. But as I go on in my paper you will realize that Germany was justified to sink the boat. Fist off, the Germans had warned them weeks maybe even months back, that if any ships consulting or flying the British flag will be torpedoed after all passengers are off the ship; and this was published in the NEW YORK TIMES and all newspapers throughout the country.
Recalling that the ground trembled recently, and noticing that the soil felt hot under his bare feet, he hurried to town to tell the mayor and to bring some people back with him. When they all returned, black was smoke billwoing from a hole 30 feet deep. The first explosion came that very night, shoting a thick column of smoke, ciders, and ash more than a mile into the air. More explosions followed every few seconds, throwing masses of rock that varied from the size of a walnut to size of a house. Lava began to flow to days later, and the newborn volcano continued yo erupt from many
This island lies 4,776km from Krakatoa. The people of Rodrigues thought they were hearing gunfire from a naval battle beyond the horizon. The explosion of Krakatoa and the massive wave it created devastated the surrounding area. After the coasts of Java and those of Sumatra, were entirely destroyed. The villages and trees had disappeared, they could not even see any ruins, for the waves has demolished and swallowed up the inhabitants, the homes and the plantations.
Around the same time hijackers crashed the third airliner into the Pentagon and the fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County.Hearing all these tragic events just makes me shiver. Many people died in this event and even more were leaft with horrible memories that will stay with them all there life. I was nine at the moment. I was watching the news and remembering seeing the two biuldings on fire and smoking all over the place. People were running all over the place scared, terrified, shocked.
Although, on the 22nd of October a fire broke out in the parish of St Andrew's, in Norwich. The fire started to spread and not long after the local jail became engulfed in smoke and flame. The frightened inmates were swiftly released and one showed curiosity on account of a person’s incredible appearance, he had excessive amounts of hair and was deemed to be very strong. The noises the unknown man made led some to describe him as an orangutan. A few days later this unknown hero was identified as Peter the Wild Boy.