Please DO NOT add profiles to this project.== ===Please consider making a project if you have a profile for an Urban fire. Many are listed below.===* If you need assistance please bring it to our attention in this discussion: Cause of Death Projects needed??? A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. It is most commonly a natur...
Were your ancestors effected by this fire? Most are familiar with the Chicago fire. But Michigan and Wisconsin were also greatly effected. The Chicago Fire of 1871 gets (justifiably) a great deal of attention. Something that is not as well known is the fact that it was only one of a number of major fires across the Midwest that burned millions of acres in October of 1871 and caused over 1200 de...