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The Great Fire (children's novel)
''The Great Fire'' is a story for children and young adults, its written by Jim Murphy about a huge fire that occurred in Chicago in 1871.''The Great Fire'' was a Newbery medal honor book in 1996. The great fire caused the destruction of most of Chicago.
==Plot==
The novel ''The Great Fire'' is about the great fire that happened in Chicago. The huge fire started in the O'leary's barn and lasted for 30 hours. Daniel ''peg leg'' Sullivan was the first to notice the fire and ran to save the cows in the barn and to tell the O'leary's that their property was on fire, William Lee a neighbor of the O'leary's runs to the drug store to turn in a fire alarm, but Bruno Gell the owner of the drug store doesn't allow him because all the fire trucks had left. Lee goes back to his house and gets his baby and wife out of the house. Bruno Gell claimed that he turned in the alarm after lee left the drug store, but no alarm was recorded at the central alarm office and the fire started to spread to other parts of the neighborhood and destroying everything in its path. After several minutes the fire trucks were sent to box 242, which is almost a mile away from the barn were the fire had started and then the fire trucks were sent again to the wrong location and the fire continued to spread. The fire advanced from the Oleary's barn towards Jeffersons street before the fire fighter finally showed up to the right location of the fire. The fire fighter were exhausted from a long day of work and didn't have enough energy to stop the fire from spreading to other parts of the city. The residents of the area took what ever they can from their houses and ran away from the fire. Dorsey a fire man ran to the drug store pulled the lever to sound the fire alarm but no one responded and the fire continued to grow with the power of the wind and burned more houses and injured many fire fighters. The fire was now headed towards north and east Chicago, burning what ever is in its path. The fire grew so big the fire trucks weren't able to turn it off and leave the burned area in order to protect the other areas of the city.The people were all running away in different directions, Claire one of the people whose house was burned down ran into a dead end and was trapped between the fire and the houses. Claire ran to the tallest house and jumped to the other side of the street and kept running towards the south side of the city. To prevent the fire from moving towards the south side of the city the fire fighters blow up the houses and helped the residents of that area to flee towards Lincoln Park where they spent the night. As the fire kept moving towards other parts of the city it started to rain, which gave the people of the city hope and by morning the fire that devastated the city was no more. The fire had completely destroyed many parts of the city, it had caused one hundred thousand people to become homeless and killed about 300 people and many more were missing. After the fire the people of Chicago began to rebuilt their city and received aid from other states. The United States Army put up tents for the people that lost their houses. After the fire the residents of the city accused the Oleary's of starting the fire, which caused the Oleary's to sell their property and left Chicago, because of fear that they might be killed by the angry people of Chicago. Before the great fire that devastated the city Chicago was known as the Queen city of the west and the Gem of the Prairie, but after the fire it was nothing but dust.〔"The Great Fire by Jim Murphy | Scholastic.com." Scholastic Teachers. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 May 2015.〕
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