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1906 San Francisco earthquake

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« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2009, 01:21:59 pm »

Subsequent fires

As damaging as the earthquake and its aftershocks were, the fires that burned out of control afterward were much more destructive.[13] It has been estimated that up to 90% of the total destruction was the result of the subsequent fires.[14] Over 30 fires, caused by ruptured gas mains, destroyed approximately 25,000 buildings on 490 city blocks. Worst of all, many were started when firefighters, untrained in the use of dynamite, attempted to demolish buildings to create firebreaks, which resulted in the destruction of more than 50% of the buildings that would have otherwise survived.[15] The city's Fire Chief, Dennis T. Sullivan, who would have been responsible, had died in the initial quake. The dynamited buildings themselves often caught fire. In all, the fires burned for four days and nights.

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