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Crucible of fire : nineteenth-century urban fires and the making of the modern fire service / Bruce Hensler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hensler, Bruce, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fire prevention--United States--History--19th century.
- Fire prevention.
- Fires--United States--History--19th century.
- Fires.
- Cities and towns--United States--History--19th century.
- Cities and towns.
- City and town life--United States--History--19th century.
- City and town life.
- Fire extinction--United States--History--19th century.
- Fire extinction.
- Fire departments--United States--History--19th century.
- Fire departments.
- Fire fighters--United States--History--19th century.
- Fire fighters.
- Fire prevention--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Fires--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Fires--Social aspects.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2011]
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. The context of the modern fire service
- Origins of organized fire service
- Firefighter culture
- Contemporary firefighting
- pt. 2. The fire problem defined
- Great fire in Pittsburgh
- Fire in the built environment
- Fire and human behavior
- Fire in rural areas and wildlands
- pt. 3. The fire service under fire
- Transformative forces to make firefighting safer
- Cultural change needed to improve firefighter safety
- Transitional forces create new fire service model
- pt. 4. Learning to fight great urban fires
- London and the development of a fire service
- Portland and the Board of Fire Underwriters
- Boston and the standardization of fire protection
- pt. 5. Learning to control building fires
- Fire protection in theory
- Deadly fire in a fireproof hotel
- Firefighting, building codes, and technology
- pt. 6. Firefighters, engineers, and underwriters
- New England mills and the factory mutual system
- Fighting fires : from art to science
- Volunteers to paid firemen
- Legacy of the combustible city.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781597976848
- 1597976849
- OCLC:
- 650217409
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