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Archival Anecdotes: Fighting the Flames

The first Fire Prevention Week was named as a day to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and was expanded to become Fire Prevention Week in 1922.

Long before there was such a thing as Fire Prevention Week, the City of New Rockford was assembled and prepared for if and when fire might strike the community.

And strike it did­- time and again. The wood constructed homes and businesses...