The Great Baltimore Fire [SIGNED]

Petersen, Peter B.

Verlag: Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland, 2004

Beschreibung

New condition photographic stiff softcover wraps. Includes Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Epilogue; List of Fire-Fighting Units; Comparison of Major Fires; Notes; and Index. Also includes a tipped-in nine page Abstract (pages 247 - 255) entitled: Baltimore Civil Engineering History, The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 by Peter B. Petersen. Signed by the author with dark blue/black thin Sharpie on first front title page (see photograph). "A few minutes after ten, on an icy Sunday morning in February 1904, a passerby noticed smoke coming from the fourth floor of the building that housed John E. Hurst and Company, a dry goods firm in the heart of downtown Baltimore. In the next critical hour, a small, easily manageable fire suddenly exploded into a maelstrom that took on a life of its own and threatened the entire city. For the next thirty hours, Baltimore's fate hung in the balance, as temperatures reached 2,500 degrees, and soaring flames could be seen against the night sky fifty miles away. Engine companies raced in from Washington, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, and all over Maryland to help. This is the story of the Great Baltimore Fire and the men and women who fought it - ordinary citizens who struggled to save themselves and their neighbors, newspapermen forced from their buildings, telephone and telegraph operators who bravely remained at their posts until the last minute, citizen-soldiers and sailors, ship captains, warehouse crews, a horse named Goliath, and, most of all - firemen. It is also the story of men and women reacting to crisis, of disastrous decisions and indomitable courage and determination. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001234

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Great Baltimore Fire [SIGNED]

Verlag: Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland

Erscheinungsdatum: 2004

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: New

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)