How does the Great Chicago Fire compare to Palisades fire? A look at the numbers
The most devastating wildfire in Los Angeles history continues to burn, evoking comparisons to The Great Chicago Fire that ...
Mapped Out – Frank McNally on a wealthy namesake’s mansion, destroyed in the Los Angeles fires
Unfortunately, proximity to mountain forestry meant the location was on the front line of the Eaton Fire, one of the worst of ...
Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts
For years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention ...
Normal Fire Department puts California wildfires in local perspective
The area damaged by one major fire in Southern California is over two times larger than the size of the Town of Normal. The ...
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Rebuilding After Fire
“As long as we continue to build houses with wood in places that are expected to burn, the only outcome we can expect is that ...
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Experts share inconvenient truths about the wildfires burning in LA
Not quite six years ago, wildfire expert Jack Cohen, who lives in Missoula, in the US state of Montana, visited Pacific ...
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Palisades Fire in California dwarfs the Great Chicago Fire in size
As California battles the massive Palisades Fire, its sheer size puts the historic Great Chicago Fire of 1871 into ...
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Editorial: From the city that used fire as a catalyst for reinvention, good wishes for Los Angeles
Had the Chicago History Museum known what was about to befall America’s second largest city, it might not have scheduled its current exhibition, “City on Fire: Chicago 1871.” Or, at least, it would ...
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Chicago transplants flee wildfires raging across Los Angeles: ‘I just didn’t know how fast things could spread’
“It’s like the Palisades was wiped out,” Stein Kovoloff said, drawing comparisons between the destruction she witnessed from afar and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. “I miss the trees that ...