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History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West, by E. J. Goodspeed (page images at MOA)
The conquest of fire; a romantic narrative of men and events which culminates in the chronicle of a great institution. (New York Underwriters Agency, 1914), by New York Underwriters Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
Fire losses and fire risks. (Bureau of public administration, University of California, 1943), by Herbert A. Simon, Frederick Wallace Sharp, and Ronald William Shephard (page images at HathiTrust)
Fires and fire-fighters : a history of modern fire-fighting with a review of its development from earliest times (1913), by John Kenlon (page images at HathiTrust)
Safety and fire protection technical bulletin. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Safety and Fire Protection Branch, 1951), by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Safety and Fire Protection Branch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The NACOM code for analysis of postulated sodium spray fires in LMFBRs (The Commission, 1980), by S. S. Tsai, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Engineering and Advanced Reactor Safety Division, and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Health and safety problems of firefighters : hearing before the Employment and Housing Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, April 15, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment and Housing Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
Fire safe cigarettes : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session, on H.R. 293 and H.R. 673 ... May 16, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by Consumer Protection United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
Fire effects of bombing attacks ([Washington], 1950), by United States. Department of Defense. Civil Defense Liaison Office and United States. National Security Resources Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Smoke management guide for prescribed and wildland fire (National Wildlife Coordinating Group, 2001), by Colin C. Hardy and National Wildfire Coordinating Group (U.S.). Fire Use Working Team (page images at HathiTrust)
Manual of fire-loss prevention of the Federal Fire Council (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1934), by Federal Fire Council (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Drama of the fire-fiend! or, Chicago, as it was, and as it is (Wells & Co. ;, 1872), by Frank Luzerne and John G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
Fire and explosion in a blasting agent mix building, Norton, Va. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1962), by Robert W. Van Dolah and Joseph S. Malesky (page images at HathiTrust)
Fire and explosion risks : a handbook dealing with the detection, investigation and prevention of dangers arising from fires and explosions of chemico-technical substances and establishments-- (Charles Griffin and Co., ltd., 1904), by Ernst von Schwartz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Précis d'expertises après incendies des récoltes et des bois. (Librairie agricole de la maison rustique; [etc., etc., 1916), by Ernest Vidière (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Fires and fire-fighters; a history of modern fire-fighting with a review of its development from earliest times (George H. Doran Company, 1913), by John Kenlon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
One hundred years; being a short history of fires, and the methods of fighting fires during the past one hundred years. Also a brief story of the founding and growth of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company in Philadelphia. (The Franklin Fire Insurance Co., 1929), by Jerome B. Gray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Fires & fire test, a selection of papers and reports. (the Author, 1910), by British Fire Prevention Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
Kitchen ranges in fabric fires (U.S. Bureau of Standards, 1974), by Allan K. Vickers and United States. National Bureau of Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
It can't happen to my home! : Are you sure? (Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Region, 0190), by United States Forest Service Northern Region (page images at HathiTrust)
"It can't happen to my home!" : Are you sure? (The Region, 1987), by United States Forest Service Southwestern Region (page images at HathiTrust)
Influence of moisture on effectiveness of fire retardants (Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1965), by Richard C. Rothermel and Charles E. Hardy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mass fires and fire behavior (Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1964), by Clive M. Countryman (page images at HathiTrust)
Characteristics of backfires and headfires in a pine needle fuel bed (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest & Range Experiment Station, 1965), by William R. Beaufait and Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Ogden, Utah) (page images at HathiTrust)
Research natural areas : baseline monitoring and management : proceedings of a symposium in Missoula, Montana, March 21, 1984 (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1984), by R. G. Krebill, Jerry F. Franklin, Janet L. Johnson, and Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Ogden, Utah) (page images at HathiTrust)
Project Flambeau ... an investigation of mass fire (1964-1967) : final report. (Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1969), by Calif.) Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Theodore G. Storey, Thomas Y. Palmer, Clive M. Countryman, United States. Defense Atomic Support Agency, and United States Office of Civil Defense (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Prediction of fire spread following nuclear explosions (Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1963), by Craig C. Chandler, Charles D. Tangren, Theodore G. Storey, and United States Office of Civil Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the great fires in Chicago and the West ... With a history of the rise and progress of Chicago, the "young giant". To which is appended a record of the great fires in the past. (H. S. Goodspeed & Co.;, 1871), by E. J. Goodspeed (page images at HathiTrust)
The effect of fire : A report on the Horne building fire, Pittsburgh, U.S.A. ([s.n.], 1898), by Gustave Kaufman, F.L. Garlinghouse, and Emil Swensson (page images at HathiTrust)
Complete story of the San Francisco horror. (Hubert D. Russell, 1906), by Richard Linthicum and Trumbull White (page images at HathiTrust)
The fireman's own book: containing accounts of fires throughout the United States, as well as other countries (New York, Philadelphia [etc.], 1860), by George P. Little (page images at HathiTrust)
Earthquake and fire (Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 1958), by Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Committee on Fire Protection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Regulations of the Society, instituted at Cambridge, March 17, 1797 as amended to Jan. 28, 1833. (C. Folsom, printer, 1833), by Mass. Friendly fire society Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
Boating accident investigations 1973 ; fire and explosion (Tampa, Fla., 1974), by Underwriters' Laboratories, Robert Loeser, and United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the world's greatest fires. (Press of F. Hudson Publishing Co., 1905), by George Consider Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
A challenge of the erroneous statements that fire losses in America are due to the popular use of lumber for building (They are not) The first authoritative exhibit of the relation of building materials to fire losses in America and foreign countries; with supplement showing graphic chart and complete tables scientifically analyzing official statistics and giving net facts only; first presented before the convention of the Forest Products Federation, at Chicago, February 24-25, 1915. (Chicago, 1915), by Crosby--Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
One hundred years : being a short history of fires, and the methods of fighting fires during the past one hundred years; together with some interesting facts about fires of ancient times ... also a brief story of the founding and growth of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company in Philadelphia. (Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia, 1929), by Jerome B. Gray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
State Teachers College Fire, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
State Teachers College Fire, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust)
State Teachers College Fire, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1922), by John Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
State Teachers College Fire, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1922), by John Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
State Teachers College Fire, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1922), by John Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
State Teachers College Fire, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1922), by John Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
Commercial College Fire, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
Commercial College Fire, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001; http://www.bechshistory.com, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fire at Mankato Commercial College, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society, 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001, http://www.bechshistory.com/, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
Demolition of Mankato High School after the Fire, Mankato (Blue Earth County Historical Society, 415 Cherry Street, Mankato, MN 56001, http://www.bechshistory.com/, 1941) (page images at HathiTrust)
NFIRS : National fire incident reporting system handbook (Federal Emergency Management Agency, [U.S. Fire Administration], National Fire Data Center, 1980), by Ross Duncan and National Fire Data Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Qualitative effects on safety and construction materials of 1300° F sodium-potassium spray in air and nitrogen (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1967), by John M. McGee, Armen S. Asadourian, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
Manual of fire-loss prevention of the Federal fire council. <Issued November 5, 1934> (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1934), by Federal Fire Council (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Crash-fire protection system for a J57 turbojet engine using water as a cooling and inerting agent (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960), by Dugald O. Black and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
A combined water-bromotrifluoromethane crash-fire protection system for a T-56 turbopropeller engine (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1959), by John A. Campbell, Arthur M. Busch, and Lewis Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
Facts and documents bearing upon the legal and moral questions : connected with the recent destruction of the quarantine buildings on Staten Island (Wm. C. Bryant & Co., printers, 1858), by N. Barrett and N.Y.). Executive Committee Staten Island (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
The fireman's own book : containing accounts of fires throughout the United States as well as other countries. (New York, etc., 1850), by John B. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
Fires and fire brigades (William Clowes and Sons, 1889), by Eyre Massey Shaw and England). Executive Council International Health Exhibition (1884 : London (page images at HathiTrust)
Firebrands (Little, Brown, and company, 1917), by Frank Eugene Martin and George Moses Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Allgemeine Brandursachen. Handbuch für den Assecuranzstand. (A.F. Elsner, 1877), by A. F. Elsner (page images at HathiTrust)
Souvenir book of the great Chelsea fire : April 12, 1908. Containing thirty-four views of the burned district and prominent buildings. Also a descriptive sketch. (N.E. Paper , 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
Edison fire. ([Philadelphia, 1915), by American Concrete Institute. Committee on Edison fire (page images at HathiTrust)
Project Fire Flight 1 vibration data (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1967), by Herbert A. Leybold, Ling-Temco-Vought, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
Protection against fires, and the best means of putting out fires in cities, towns, and villages, with practical suggestions for the security of life and property. (Hurd and Houghton, 1873), by Joseph W. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
Official record of the first American national fire prevention convention, held at Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A., October 13-18 (inclusive) 1913; including all papers and discussions; also 1913 report of fire marshal, city of Philadelphia, with 1912 and 1913 reports of Philadelphia fire prevention commission attached; also 1914 report of Fire waste committee, Chamber of commerce of the U.S. of A.; also selections from "Fire waste"; the total constituting a reference book covering the physical, moral, legal, legislative and administrative phases of American fire waste. (Philadelphia, 1915), by American national fire prevention convention (1st : 1913 : Philadelphia) and Powell Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
Rescue and recovery operations in mines after fires and explosions (Govt. print. off., 1916), by United States Bureau of Mines, Hugh Maupin Wolflin, Hugh M. Wolflin, and James W. Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
Address, on the right methods of preventing destructive fires in cities, and securing indemnity against loss by fire at cost. Given in New York, Jan. 24, 1881. [With an apendix.] (Boston, 1881), by Edward Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
The Great bonanza : illustrated narrative of adventure and discovery in gold mining, silver mining, among the raftsmen, in the oil regions, whaling, hunting, fishing and fighting (Lee & Shepard, 1876), by H. L. Stephens, William Ludwell Sheppard, Frank T. Merrill, Lizbeth Bullock Humphrey, Yigilan, William Luson Thomas, Rogers, E. Potts, Kinnersley, Samuel Smith Kilburn, Johnson, W. How, George T. Andrew, John Andrew, P. G., M., F. M. W., George M. Towle, Frank H. Taylor, Old Salt, Charles A. Hoyt, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Charles Winslow Hall, Edward Dusseault, W. P. Duncan, Justin Dale, Mary Granger Chase, Samuel Burnham, C. E. Bishop, George M. Baker, J. H. W., R. M. Ballantyne, Oliver Optic, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, Bigelow & Co Welch, Shepard & Dillingham Lee, and Lee and Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
Far in the forest : a story (London : Macmillan & Co., 1901., 1901), by S. Weir Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the Boston Protective Department. (Deland and Barta, 1874), by Boston Protective Department (page images at HathiTrust)
By earthquake and fire : an authentic history of the San Francisco calamity ... told by eye witnesses ... with nearly 100 illustrations ... (International Press, 1906), by Lindley Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
Law of municipal condemnation in Maryland (Press of King bros., 1904), by Albert Cabell Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
A profile of fire in the United States. (Federal Emergency Management Agency, United States Fire Administration, National Fire Data Center, in the 20th century), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency and National Fire Data Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
The Ward LaFrance book of conflagrations (Ward LaFrance truck division, 1944), by Paul W. Kearney and Great American Industries Ward LaFrance truck division (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Relaçaõ de hum formidavel incendio, que no mez de julho deste presente anno succedeo, na cidade de Moscou do imperio da Russia : estragos que fez a numero das pessoas, que nelle pereceraõ : tirada de noticias certas, que a esta corte vieraõ (Na officin. de Domingos Rodrigues, 1753), by Antonio Mendes da Costa and Domingos Rodrigues (page images at HathiTrust)
Relaçaõ do grande, e deploravel incendio que acconteceo na cidade de Lisboa em o dia 5. do mez de agosto do anno de 1753 : com particular noticia de alguns mais, que tem accontecido desde o anno de 1750, até o prezente. (Lisboa : Na offic. do doutor Manoel Alvares Solano do Valle, anno MDCCLIII [1753], 1753) (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the ... Subcommittee on Hospitals and Medical Facilities, Fire Protection, Narcotics and Mentally Ill, Air Pollution and Radiation Protection. ([Sacramento, 1963), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Public Health (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Oregon fire losses, five-year period ([Salem, Oregon] : State Fire Marshal of Oregon, 1940., 1940), by Oregon. State Fire Marshal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A sermon, preached in the Bowery Presbyterian Church, New York, December 10, 1835, on the day of the public thanksgiving (J. P. Haven, 1835), by John Woodbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
God's counsel and purpose (of warning rather than judgment) against the crowning city. A sermon, occasioned by the devastating fire of 16th December, and delivered in the Mission Church of the Holy Evangelists, on Sunday morning, Dec. 20, 1835. (Protestant Episcopal Press, 1835), by Hugh Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
The providence of God in the calamities of men. A sermon preached for the Duane-Street Church, and also in the Rutgers-Street Church, on Sabbath December 20, 1835 (Leavitt, Lord, 1836), by John M. Krebs (page images at HathiTrust)
A profile of fire in the United States, 1992-2001 (U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2004), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
Fire waste in the United States; address by a special committee, at the joint conservation conference held in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8th, 9th, 1908. ([n.p., 1908), by National Board of Fire Underwriters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An essay on phlogiston, and the constitution of acids (Printed by J. Davis, for P. Elmsly ..., 1787), by Richard Kirwan (page images at HathiTrust)
Burn investigations of some coaxial cables (Los Alamos, New Mexico : Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1965., 1965), by F. M. Jackson, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
Case of the Canadians at Montreal distressed by fire ([publisher not identified], 1765) (page images at HathiTrust)
Centenaire de la Moskowa. (Paris, 1913), by Carnet de la Sabretache and Emmanuel César Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A practical treatise on outbreaks of fire; being a systematic study of their causes and means of prevention, dealing with the possibilities of danger, precautions necessary, notification, extinction, equipment for saving life and property, organisation of fire brigades, both private and public, notes on structure design of building, legal enactments and fire insurance, historic conflagrations and their lessons. (C. Griffin and Company, Limited, 1926), by Sidney Gompertz Gamble (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rural fire defense : you can survive (Forest Service, 1962), by United States Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, and United States Office of Civil Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
Derailment of Norfolk Southern Railway Company Train 68QB119 with release of hazardous materials and fire, New Brighton, Pennsylvania, October 20, 2006. (National Transportation Safety Board ;, 2008), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
A record of the Baltimore conflagration, February 7 and 8, 1904, comprising a map of the fire area, a series of photographs of the buildings affected, the official government report on the fire and the opinions of expert bodies (The British fire prevention committee, 1904), by Edwin O. Sachs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Firebrands, by Frank Eugene Martin and George Moses Davis (Gutenberg ebook)
Protection from Fire and Thieves: Including the construction of locks, safes, strong-rooms, and fireproof buildings; burglary, and the means of preventing it; fire, its detection, prevention, and extinction; etc., by George Hayter Chubb (Gutenberg ebook)
Souvenir Book of the Great Chelsea Fire April 12, 1908: Containing Thirty-Four Views of the Burned District and Prominent Buildings (Gutenberg ebook)

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