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Bradwell Helmer goes into full details about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 in his narrative, The Great Conflagration. It begins with small fires happening the same week, leading to a big fire that spreads to the middle of the city. I was very pleased to see that City officials released prisoners by the time they noticed that it was too late to do anything about the burning Court House. The fire keeps spreading across the city until the rain brings it to a stop on a Tuesday morning. Helmer then talks about the reaction of the Chicagoans in the city, the people running for their lives while creating “havoc” in the burning streets and while others were crushed under buildings or looting most of the empty shops. I really find the quote in the beginning to be meaningful to this article, just like ngojosephs and other classmates state, A.T Andreas’ quotes “Nature had withheld her accustomed measure of prevention, and man had added to the peril by recklessness.” talks about the natural and unnatural of the fire. Nature took its course like always but man could not stop the disaster, instead, they made it worse by their “recklessness”. It looks like the citizens of Chicago were not expecting the fire to be devastating but I also view it as a new experience that the city had to overcome to become even greater, Chicagoans panic when they encounter their major disaster, some acted in evil ways and decided to loot the city, while a few heroically rescued those in need. In the end, this narrative shows how humans react to the natural but also how we come together in times of disasters.
