![]() An "especially cruel irony" was the fact that saloons were ordered closed on the day of the fire, yet there, in bottles, jugs and kegs, "was undoubtedly enough wine to extinguish the early fires." Smith too often pauses to backfill the careers and family histories of various personalities or discuss the tectonics of earthquakes. ![]() Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. ![]() The author takes aim at the procedures of the official response and the chain of command, considers whether the army did more than the navy and presents "what-if" scenarios that will appeal most to students of how to manage a natural disaster. San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires by Dennis Smith. With 92 chapters, the narrative effect is one of a nervous cameraman trying to take in everything (the chapter on Enrico Caruso jumping from his bed at the Palace Hotel is one paragraph long) and managing to make a distant event seem even more remote. ) performs an exhausting autopsy on the temblor and subsequent fire that devastated San Francisco 100 years ago. ![]() In all, 522 blocks and 28,188 buildings were leveled, and some 200,000 people dislocated. ![]() The ensuing fires that ravaged the city for days were responsible for the deaths of as many as 3,000 more. Firefighter turned author Smith ( Report from Ground Zero on the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by one of the worst earthquakes in history, instantly killing hundreds. ![]()
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