The Great Fire of London started in a pie shop on Pudding Lane, now commemorated by a 65 m (202 ft) Doric column surmounted with flames of gold. The Monument appears to celebrate the disaster, and there are good reasons why it should. The fire consumed four fifths of the city within its Roman walls …
In AD 64 Rome was the greatest city in the Western world – the capital of an Empire approaching the height of its power. With nearly a million citizens spread across its seven hills, Rome was accustomed to dealing with serious fires in the hot, dry summers. It had the means, the knowledge, the experience …
Fatal fires don’t come more harrowing than the crackling inferno that took Collinwood’s children in 20 awful minutes, and prompted the grief-stricken community literally to vote itself out of existence. It is the worst school tragedy in Ohio’s history. A crisp, sunny, Midwest March morning is no time for a waking nightmare. In the two-story, …