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Massachusetts Disasters

Author : Larry Pletcher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493028774
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Massachusetts Disasters written by Larry Pletcher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing Unimaginable Events With Courage It's only human to be fascinated by disasters--and uplifted by reports of survival in the face of overwhelming circumstances. This book takes you back to Massachusetts' most catastrophic events, vividly re-creating the moments that changed the state forever. The twenty-five true stories presented here are a chilling reminder to expect the unexpected. From the 1874 Mill River flood and wreck of the City of Columbus, in 1884, to the Cocoanut Grove fire, in 1942, and the Amtrak derailment of 1990, Massachusetts has been the site of some of the nation's most dramatic moments. Each account in this book reveals not only the circumstances surrounding the disaster and the magnitude of the devastation, but also the courage and ingenuity displayed by those who survived and the heroism of those who helped others, often risking their own lives in rescue efforts.

Massachusetts Disasters

Author : Larry Pletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781493028764
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Massachusetts Disasters written by Larry Pletcher and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing Unimaginable Events With Courage It's only human to be fascinated by disasters--and uplifted by reports of survival in the face of overwhelming circumstances. This book takes you back to Massachusetts' most catastrophic events, vividly re-creating the moments that changed the state forever. The twenty-five true stories presented here are a chilling reminder to expect the unexpected. From the 1874 Mill River flood and wreck of the City of Columbus, in 1884, to the Cocoanut Grove fire, in 1942, and the Amtrak derailment of 1990, Massachusetts has been the site of some of the nation's most dramatic moments. Each account in this book reveals not only the circumstances surrounding the disaster and the magnitude of the devastation, but also the courage and ingenuity displayed by those who survived and the heroism of those who helped others, often risking their own lives in rescue efforts.

Massachusetts' (Most Devastating!) Disasters and (Most Calamitous!) Catastrophies!

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793305713
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Massachusetts' (Most Devastating!) Disasters and (Most Calamitous!) Catastrophies! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

It Happened in Massachusetts

Author : Larry Pletcher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461747457
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book It Happened in Massachusetts written by Larry Pletcher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've studied the Salem witch trials, the Boston Tea Party, and Paul Revere's midnight ride. But do you know the whole story? It Happened in Massachusetts gives readers inside information on these events as well as recounting lesser-known happenings.

Massachusetts Disaster Control, M.C.D.A., a Report ... [Dec. 1, 1964].

Author : Massachusetts. Civil Defense Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Massachusetts Disaster Control, M.C.D.A., a Report ... [Dec. 1, 1964]. written by Massachusetts. Civil Defense Agency and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Massachusetts!

Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Massachusetts! written by Carole Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Special Report by the Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners to the Legislature

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Special Report by the Massachusetts Board of Railroad Commissioners to the Legislature written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Brockton Tragedy at Moosehead Lake

Author : James E. Benson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439664226
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book The Brockton Tragedy at Moosehead Lake written by James E. Benson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the tragic story of a fishing trip gone wrong and its impact on the community of Brockton, Massachusetts. On May 13, 1928, ten prominent men of Brockton, Massachusetts, headed off on a fishing trip to Moosehead Lake in Maine. After traveling fourteen hours, the group met Maine guide Samuel Budden and boarded the Mac II for the final voyage to their destination. Approximately six miles from the Tomhegan sporting camp, the boat took on water in rough seas and sank, taking Budden and all but one of the adventurers to a watery grave. Jim Benson and Nicole Casper chronicle this horrific tragedy and its legacy in two New England communities.

Disaster of the Century

Author : United States. Works Progress Administration for Massachusetts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Disaster of the Century written by United States. Works Progress Administration for Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Tide

Author : Stephen Puleo
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807078018
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Dark Tide written by Stephen Puleo and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history—and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it. Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window—“Oh my God!” he shouted to the other men, “Run!” A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn’t known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster.

Disaster in Lawrence

Author : Alvin F. Oickle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614234868
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Disaster in Lawrence written by Alvin F. Oickle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The destruction was unimaginable. Workers in nearby factories watched with horror as the Pemberton Mill buckled and then collapsed, trapping more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children. Word of the disaster spread quickly and volunteers rushed to the scene. As survivors called out for help, a lantern fell, and within minutes fire engulfed the building, burning those trapped inside. It took days for rescuers to complete the grim task of removing the charred bodies of the dead. Alvin F. Oickle's riveting account illustrates why, nearly a century and a half later, the Pemberton collapse is still considered one of the worst industrial calamities in American history.

Training Memorandum

Author : Massachusetts. Committee on Public Safety (1940-1945)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Training Memorandum written by Massachusetts. Committee on Public Safety (1940-1945) and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Disaster Off Martha's Vineyard

Author : Thomas Dresser
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614234574
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Disaster Off Martha's Vineyard written by Thomas Dresser and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its rocky coast and treacherous shoals, shipwrecks were a common occurrence in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Few claimed as many lives as the City of Columbus. The night was clear and the route familiar for Captain Schuyler Wright and his experienced crew as they sailed a ship equipped with the latest technology. Yet with all this, the City of Columbus went down with 103 souls. Over a century later, Eric Takakjian and the Quest Marine Services team located the wreckage of the City of Columbus on the north ledge of the Devil's Bridge, off the southern tip of Gay Head. Historian Thomas Dresser takes us into the icy waters of the Atlantic as he recounts the terrible chain of events that led to disaster on that fateful night.

States Can be Better Prepared to Respond to Disasters

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book States Can be Better Prepared to Respond to Disasters written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO reviewed sections of six states' emergency plans developed or updated with Federal funds provided under the Disaster Relief Act of 19714. These plans show the role state agencies will perform during and after a disaster. Some state agencies had not developed adequate procedures to determine how tasks would be performed. None of the states had developed training programs to prepare state and local personnel to implement assigned tasks. In five states, local communities' emergency plans were not compatible with state plans. This report makes a number of recommendations to the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to effect the needed improvements.

Disaster Medicine

Author : Gregory R. Ciottone
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323032532
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Disaster Medicine written by Gregory R. Ciottone and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new volume includes Individual Concepts and Events sections that provide information on the general approach to disaster medicine and practical information on specific disasters. You'll also find an exhaustive list of chapters on the conceivable chemical and biologic weapons known today, as well as strategies for the management of future events, or possible scenarios, for which there is no precedent."--BOOK JACKET.

Working Disasters

Author : Eric Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351840541
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Working Disasters written by Eric Tucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, workers are injured, made ill, or killed on the job. Most often, workers experience these harms individually and in isolation. Particular occurrences rarely attract much public attention beyond, perhaps, a small paragraph in the local newspaper. Instead, these events are normalized. This membrane of normalcy, however, is ruptured from time to time, especially after a disaster. This edited collection draws together original case studies written by leading researchers in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, and the United States that examine the politics of working disasters. The essays address two fundamental questions: what gets recognized as a work disaster? And how does the state respond to one? In some instances, it seems self-evident that a disaster has occurred. For example, when a mine explodes killing tens or hundreds of workers simultaneously, the media and politicians recognize that this is not just a personal tragedy for the families of the victims, and that more troubling questions need to be asked about how this could happen. In other circumstances, however, the process that determines what gets recognized as a disaster is much more complicated. "Working Disasters" addresses the politics of recognition in case studies of the long-haul trucking industry, repetitive strain injuries, and lung disease in miners. Once it has recognized that a working disaster has occurred, the state typically goes beyond its routine responses to the daily toll of work-related deaths and injuries. Inquiries may be initiated to review the adequacy of regulatory systems and laws may be amended. Sometimes disasters produce meaningful change, but often they do not. In this text, the politics of response is considered in studies of a factory fire, the loss of an offshore oilrig, lung disease among miners, a mine explosion, and the prosecution of health and safety offences. This book will be of use to occupational health and safety activists and professionals; academics and upper-year students in: industrial relations, labour studies, labour history, law, political science, and sociology.

The Pemberton Casualties

Author : Alvin F. Oickle
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467863955
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book The Pemberton Casualties written by Alvin F. Oickle and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been a century and a half since the country was rocked with the news that a “monster mill” in Lawrence, Massachusetts, collapsed while hundreds of employees were at work. The Pemberton Mill in 1860 was like others – huge, productive, but not safe for employees. The Pemberton Casualties tells the stories of the 1,003 men, women, and children – oh, so many children! – who were to suffer and die in this disaster. On these pages, the reader will find the names of every one of the thousand. Charts show ages, addresses, and even their final month’s wages. Genealogists will find this a gold mine awaiting their searching.