Fires and fire prevention

SUBJECT OF

ARTICLES (15)
FICTION (1)
JOKES (5)
IMAGES (2)
PHOTOGRAPH (1)

34-36	April 1990 Readings/Article The day the fire came By Virginia Bell Dabney SEE ALSO: Farms; Fires; Fires and fire prevention PDF IMAGES
54-57	May 1982 Article Only cows were killed By Floyd C. Stuart SEE ALSO: Barns; Fires and fire prevention PDF IMAGES
492	August 1907 Editor's drawer/Article Thought it was a motor SEE ALSO: Baltimore; Fires and fire prevention; New Yorkers; Wagons PDF IMAGES
150-151	June 1884 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Fires and fire prevention; High-rise apartment buildings PDF IMAGES
788-789	April 1880 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Collective behavior; Fire prevention; Fires and fire prevention; Panic; Theaters PDF IMAGES
145	June 1877 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Fires and fire prevention; Hotels; Saint Louis PDF IMAGES
456	February 1873 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Fires and fire prevention; Hanging; Hotels PDF IMAGES
940-941	November 1872 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Atlantic Ocean; Career as ship captain; Fires and fire prevention; Heroes; Maury, Jefferson; Ship captains; Ships PDF IMAGES
947	May 1871 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fires and fire prevention; Michigan, Lake; Ships PDF IMAGES
944	May 1870 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: African American boys; Fires and fire prevention; Jacksonville; Schools PDF IMAGES
607-608	March 1870 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Fires and fire prevention; Ships PDF IMAGES
708-710	October 1868 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Accidents; Bridges; Fires and fire prevention; Theaters PDF IMAGES
104-113	December 1866 Article Forty-three days in an open boat. Compiled from personal diaries By Mark Swain SEE ALSO: Castaways; Clipper ships; Diaries; Fires and fire prevention; Ferguson, Henry; Mitchell, Josiah Angier; Pacific Ocean; Ferguson, Samuel PDF IMAGES
710	October 1857 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fires and fire prevention; North Atlantic Ocean; Passenger accommodation; Ships; Steamboats PDF IMAGES
565-566	September 1854 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Erie, Lake; Fires and fire prevention; Heroes; Maynard, John; Life-saving at fires; Ships PDF IMAGES

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Fiction

Vignettes of Manhattan. II.—A midsummer midnight

By Brander Matthews

SEE ALSO: Adventure stories; Cowboys; Fires and fire prevention; Historical fiction; Hotels; Manhattan (New York, New York); Sailors

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286	January 1919 Editor's drawer/Joke Stopped too soon SEE ALSO: Elementary school teachers; Fires and fire prevention; School attendance; Schools PDF IMAGES
741	October 1918 Editor's drawer/Joke A sharp distinction SEE ALSO: Constables; Factories; Fires and fire prevention PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 916	May 1918 Editor's drawer/Joke First aid SEE ALSO: Dwellings; Fire extinction; Fire fighters; Fires and fire prevention PDF IMAGES
970	May 1915 Editor's drawer/Joke A last resort SEE ALSO: Bible; Fires and fire prevention; Hotels; Rope PDF IMAGES
809	October 1909 Editor's drawer/Joke In case of fire SEE ALSO: Battleships; Fires and fire prevention; Museum attendance PDF IMAGES

19	August 2008 Readings/Illustration London Apt Fire, 2007 By Richard Storms SEE ALSO: Apartment houses; Fires; Fires and fire prevention PDF IMAGES
	December 2007 Illustration Oil painting (detail) By Bo Bartlett and Karen Mauch (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fires and fire prevention; Oil fields; Petroleum workers PDF IMAGES

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Readings/Photo

Evacuated house and smoke from three million gallons of gasoline burning in a Shell Oil fuel tank struck by lightning, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1996

By Laura McPhee (Photog.) and Virginia Beahan (Photog.)

SEE ALSO: Buildings; Dwellings; Fires and fire prevention; Petroleum industry and trade; Smoke

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