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10 Kebakaran Besar Yang Paling Populer Dalam Sejarah
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Ever since mankind first began building structures out of wood rather than stone, fire has been a part of the learning process. In fact, so common have these infernos been throughout history that nearly every major city in the world has been largely burnt to the ground at one time or another in its history. Some, in fact, have burned repeatedly. For example, Constantinople was burned no fewer than five times between 406 and 1204 only to be, like a damaged anthill, rebuilt each time, thereby setting the stage for the next great inferno. Many times these fires are man-made results of war, but most of the time nature—combined with poor construction techniques, the extensive use of flammable building materials, and the utter lack of any ability to fight really large blazes—were the culprit. A few of these fires stand out in our memory, however, both for their size and some for having had a major role in shaping historical events. Which fires are these? Without further ado, here is my list of the top ten most destructive, most famous, or most historically significant non-war related infernos in history.

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10. Boston 1872

10 Kebakaran Besar Yang Paling Populer Dalam Sejarah


While not as large a fire as the one in Chicago the year before or the fire that was to ravage San Francisco just over three decades later, Boston’s fire was arguably the most expensive in terms of property damage of any American fire. This was largely due to the fact that most of the damage was confined to the cities’ downtown areas and financial districts, resulting in thousands of Bostonians losing their jobs and hundreds of businesses being destroyed. In fact, it was so expensive a fire that dozens of insurance companies even went bankrupt trying to pay out damages. (Think about that the next time you pay your premium.) Unfortunately, the fire might never have done so much damage had not the cities’ overworked fire department not been burdened with everything from locked fire alarm boxes (which had been ordered by the city to be locked to prevent false reports) to low water pressure and non-standardized fire hydrant couplings. In the end, this comedy of errors resulted in 65 acres of downtown Boston—including some 776 building and twenty people—being turned into charred cinders, making it one of the East Coast’s most devastating fires.

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9. London 1212

10 Kebakaran Besar Yang Paling Populer Dalam Sejarah


Much less well known than the later fire in 1666, the fire that devastated London in 1212 (known also as The Great Fire of Southwark) was far more deadly, leaving as many as 3,000 people dead, many of whom died when they were trapped on the engulfed London Bridge. (Yes, there really was a London Bridge, but this one was made of highly flammable wood waterproofed with even more flammable tar.) While exact figures on the number of buildings destroyed may never be known, the fire gutted much of the area south of the Thames known as Southwark, leaving about a third of the old city in ruins. Of course, this wasn’t the first fire to ravage London during its history, as parts of the city burned in 1130 and again in 1135 (the latter fire destroying most of the city between St Paul’s and St Clement Danes in Westminster). In fact, the great city was to burn at least a half dozen times between 1130 and 1666, making it one of the great tinderboxes on the planet (and evidence that directly challenges the notion that one learns from the past). Must’ve been hard to buy a fire insurance policy back then.

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