In Baltimore, Maryland, a small fire in the business district is wind-whipped into an uncontrollable conflagration that engulfs a large portion of the city by evening. The fire is believed to have been started by a discarded cigarette in the basement of the Hurst Building. When the blaze finally burned down after 31 hours, an 80-block area of the downtown area, stretching from the waterfront to Mount Vernon on Charles Street, had been destroyed. More than 1,500 buildings were completely leveled, and some 1,000 severely damaged, bringing property loss from the disaster to an estimated $100 million. Miraculously, official reports said no lives were lost—although some reports did claim one man perished—and Baltimore’s domed City Hall, built in 1867, was preserved.
The Great Baltimore Fire was the most destructive fire in the United States since the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed most of the city and caused an estimated $200 million in property damage.
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If it was truly “great” there would BE NO Baltimore. I call “hyperbole”!
LOL! City wide fire blamed on cigarette! GTFO!!!
“STUDY finds…”
What a giant load of bullshit! PROVE IT!
Directed Enegy Weapon for sure.
No way was that a natural fire!
For a prototype it must have worked well enough.
Isn’t that a current photo?
Bwahaha!!! Good one.
It sure could use another cleansing fire today.
Amazing isn’t it that the fire was intense enough to reduce stone and brick buildings to rubble yet left all of the wooden utility poles intact?!
The laser used doesnt burn wood.
Only the stuff that burned.
It was those Arab fellows from down in Kittyhawk with their new fangled flying contraption.
if that picture does represent Baltimore, as the History channel is just as much a propagandists puppet as any media outlet around, that devastation looks a lot more like a bombing raid than a fire. While concrete will crumble in fire, that destruction in the picture is just simply not due to a fire.
A fire that burns everything up like that?
Could only have been accomplished using a directed energy weapon.
umm -1904.
That’s one way to eliminate the infestation…but who needs a migration of bed bugs, feral rats and cockroaches.
Have a friend with rental properties in Baltimore all section 8 welfare for landlords. Today with the overall condition of the city in control of an ignorant blob of blacks another great BALTIMORE FIRE could only be an improvement .
You can’t sell the houses in most of the city and rehabbing is now priced off the market because these abandoned properties have a $50 thousand back property tax bill owed to the city .
My friend attempted to deal with the city on several abandoned properties where he had rehabbed a portion of the block . This would have improved an entire city block all up to current codes for everything . He has a crew on call that comes in and guts everything .
But no the city wants back taxes from a dead former owner !
It’s them again BOO BOO …
Must be relatives of that Fani chimp.
Picture STILL looks better than one taken today.