The Great Baltimore Fire

By Peter B. Petersen

Book Overview

The story of Baltimore's great conflagration of 1904 is told with meticulous and thrilling detail.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938420925
• ISBN13: 9780938420927
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Maryland Center for History and Culture
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.1" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A great story of people, management, and politics

An interesting book that's not just about the Baltimore fire. It's about people - how they react to an emergency, how they react when a situation gets out of hand, how they cooperate, how they refuse to cooperate. It's about politics. It's about managing in a crisis. It's about bravery, including the quiet bravery of staying on the job, where you're needed, even if where you're needed is on a freezing street corner. It's about failing to prepare for unthinkable disaster and recovering from that failure. It's about competence and incompetence, followed by finger pointing and second guessing. The pictures alone are worth the price of the book. Imagine a fire that consumes 70 square blocks and over 1500 buildings.