Infrastructure
"We are going to recover fast." - President John R. Ramsey of the National Mechanics Bank
After the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, Baltimore realized there had to be improvements made in infrastructure. Baltimore widened streets, erected buildings, created a high pressure water system to fight fires, modernized the waste water system, and put electrical cables under ground. Baltimore became a completely new city after the fire.
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Streets Widened |
Electrical Cables and Telegraph LinesWhy were electrical cables and telegraph lines a problem during the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904?
"...when a pumper stopped to put out a fire on a roof, the water split from the wiring that was up on the telegraph line. So, it lost a lot of its power and it didn't do as good a job as putting out a fire, as if they had a clear shot at the roof. " -Melissa Heaver, curator and archivist at the Fire Museum of Maryland |
High Pressure Service"A system designed to provide sufficient water power to quell a future conflagration either by drowning the fire or blowing down the walls of buildings." - Display at the Fire Museum of Maryland
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