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A Frightening History Of America's Theatre Fires by Artsjournal

William Paul Gerhard, an engineer with the British Fire Prevention Committee, stated in a report that by May 1897 there had been 1,115 recorded theater fires in Europe and America (since records had been kept); there were 460 theater fires across America and Europe just from 1800 to 1877. Gerhard claimed that the average life […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 4:03pm on October 22, 2019 ☆ ⚑

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