CSPAN3 History Bookshelf May 23, 2015
Immediate vicinity of San Francisco, but up and down the coast for about two miles. It also severed most of the gas pipes in the city. It knocked over every candle and every morning fire. It displaced all the fluids so the heat had no place to go but in the ceiling. So it created in the first few minutes after the fire, at 52 recorded fires in the city of San Francisco. And the San Francisco firefighters did an extraordinary job in containing these 52 fires in the very beginning of the day. Now San Francisco, in this great stroferey experienced two pieces of very bad luck. The first piece was ...
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