With its main street lined with colorful brick buildings ... So by the time the next fire came in 1911, there were even more wooden buildings standing. The 'Great Fire' of 1911 changed everything.
Chicago’s remarkable renewal after its own legendary disaster offers reassurance and lessons for how Los Angeles can recover.
In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...
Reconstructing fire-ravaged neighborhoods in their former image could make residents sitting ducks for future blazes, experts ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A commercial building housing a local chain link and wood fence company caught on fire Sunday and firefighters say the structure was destroyed. The Indianapolis Fire ...
More than 18 months after a fire ripped through part of the Broad Street Market, Harrisburg Mayor Wanda Williams announced a new plan to rebuild and renovate the historic site. According to the ...
Many experts say luck does play a part — but they also say there are many ways that homes can be made less vulnerable to fire.
The Los Angeles fires hark to the nineteenth-century blazes that ravaged our cities—and point toward an even more flammable ...
Massachusetts has experienced fire's wrath and the death and devastation that often accompanies it. A fire at New Bedford's Pairpoint Mill in October 1965, fueled by 35-40 mile per hour winds, ...
The Brick Bar and its historic building at 229 Allen St. was just dart-throwing distance from the Old Pink, another beloved Allentown bar with decades of history that was destroyed by fire ...