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SUMMARY:Stockyard Cold Storage Fire\, Chicago IL (1910)
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DESCRIPTION:In 1910\, Chicago’s Union Stockyards and Transit Company was
  one of the world’s largest centers of industry. The 450-acre site conta
 ined thousands of wooden animal pens\, barns\, haylofts\, slaughterhouses\
 , packing plants\, and warehouses owned and operated by more than 100 sepa
 rate meatpacking businesses. The Union Stockyards\, famously documented in
  Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle\, established Chicago as the “Hog Butcher
  to the World\,” but the site was also home to the worst fire service di
 saster in Illinois history. \nAt 4 AM on December 22\, 1910\, a night watc
 hman reported a fire in the basement of a six-story cold storage building 
 operated by the Nelson Morris Company. The refrigerated warehouse was a pa
 rticularly dangerous fire hazard as the interior walls and floors were woo
 den and soaked in animal fat and grease. Furthermore\, the warehouse conta
 ined hundreds of cured hogs that were preserved with saltpeter\, one of th
 e main ingredients in gunpowder. Although Chicago firefighters responded w
 ithin minutes from the two stockyard firehouses and from elsewhere in the 
 city\, any hope of dousing the fire before it spread to the rest of the bu
 ilding was lost when the firefighters discovered that the nearby fire hydr
 ants had been shut off to prevent freezing. The warehouse was engulfed in 
 flames by the time firefighters located and activated the water valves tha
 t fed the fire hydrants. \nNumerous physical obstacles further restricted 
 the fire fighting efforts\, as railway cars\, brick walls\, and other ware
 houses closely surrounded the cold storage building. These obstructions ma
 de it impossible to set up ladders and\, as a result\, the firefighters we
 re unable to reach the warehouse’s upper floor windows to open the iron 
 shutters and release the pressure that was building up inside. The heat fr
 om the fire caused the cold air inside the refrigerated warehouse to expan
 d at a dangerous rate and\, at about 5 AM\, the pressure inside the buildi
 ng produced a massive explosion. Chief Fire Marshal James Horan had just a
 rrived and was directing operations from the building’s loading dock whe
 n the explosion occurred. An entire six-story wall collapsed on the loadin
 g dock\, killing Horan\, 2nd Assistant Chief Fire Marshal William Burrough
 s\, three captains\, four lieutenants\, and twelve other firefighters. \nF
 ire fighting efforts were severely complicated by the explosion\, not only
  because the command structure was decimated\, but also because the blast 
 had \nset a nearby seven-story lard house on fire. Moreover\, department p
 ersonnel were diverted to try to rescue the firefighters buried by the col
 lapsed wall. First Assistant Chief Charles Seyferlich\, now in command\, c
 alled in several special alarms\, bringing more than 50 engine companies a
 nd hundreds of off- duty firefighters to the scene. Fire fighting operatio
 ns lasted for more than 24 hours before the blaze was completely extinguis
 hed and the last bodies were recovered from the rubble. With 21 firefighte
 rs killed\, the Union Stockyard Fire ranks behind the 9-11 Terrorist Attac
 ks and the 1947 Texas City Disaster as the third largest loss of firefight
 ers in a single event in U.S. history. \n\nhttp://my.firefighternation.com
 /profiles/blogs/paying-tribute-the-100th\n\n
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