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Nation’s longest structure fire

came in Civil War

This historical article reports on a 1863 fire which consumed a mile long bridge in Columbia, Pennsylvania

by Don Collins


 


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   Saturday, August 26, 2006

Nation’s longest structure fire came in Civil War    
by Don Collins
Source: Website Submission
THE LONGEST FIREImagine battling a fire in a structure a mile long. Oh, by the way, it is a wood structure and there are no firewalls. No sprinklers either. And no place to stand with your hose lines because the structure is over water. To make things wors...


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