What are some good books about famous (infamous) fires?
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ThisIsMyRifle — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 09:55 AM)
Here are some of the ones I know:
Killer Show-about the Station Nightclub Fire
Triangle-about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Ship Ablaze-about the General Slocum Steamboat Fire
Inside The Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire
Fire In The Grove-about the Cocoanut Grove Fire
Chicago Deathtrap-about the Iroquois Theater Fire
Fifty Six-about the Bradford City Soccer Stadium Fire
I realize it's a morbid topic but reading about disasters is so thrilling
The cause, the choices made by people in that first crucial 90 seconds, who made it out, who didn't, the heroism of people who helped others get out who sometimes don't get out themselves, the heroism of the first responders, who's responsible for the negligence, lack of safety measures, if and when the guilty parties are charged and the punishment etc. -
bravomailer — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 12:03 PM)
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean is a look at a forest fire in the 1940s. MacLean worked for the forest service in his youth and later wrote A River Runs Through It. His son John also writes on forest fires.
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michael1951 — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 04:35 PM)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor.
A classic of middle-reader African-American literature. The fire involved is fictional but is connected with the very real history of lynching.
Shaken Days by Marion Garthwaite
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A middle-reader novel by a writer who flourished in the 1950s and 1960s and to some extent specialized in historical fiction involving California. In this case, it's the San Francisco earthquake, and my recollection (but I could be wrong) is that it included an earthquake-related fire.http://librarything.com/profile/CurrerBell