fires

Examines how communities are working to minimalize the damage caused by fires and floods.

Provides information about the Kuwaiti oil fires set by the Iraqi army as it retreated at the end of the Gulf War in 1991, focusing on the efforts to put the fires out and the environmental damage that resulted.

Focuses on devastating fires in North America.

A young African-American girl named Hallelujah lives through the great Chicago fire with courage and resourcefulness.

Describes what causes forest fires and how they are extinguished. Shows the destruction wrought by fire as well as the beneficial effects on plant and animal life.

An account of the fire that raged for twenty-four hours over much of Chicago in October 1871, destroying property and homes and killing at least 300 people.

Reuben, an Amish boy with five sisters, witnesses the burning of a neighbor's barn and experiences the excitement of the barnraising that follows.

Provides, through the story of one family, a brief description of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that destroyed five hundred city blocks, killed over three thousand people, and left about 225,0000 people homeless, and its aftermath.

Provides, through the story of a firefighter and his family, a brief description of the 1871 Chicago fire that killed over three hundred people and left over one hundred thousand people homeless, and its aftermath.

An illustrated history of firefighting that describes more than sixty important historical fires, profiles firefighters and fire starters, and chronicles the evolution of fire science and technology.