History of Chicago and south branches of the Chicago River, which flows through the city's downtown. The three white stripes represent the North, West and South sides of the city, Lake Michigan being the east side. The most famous and serious disaster was the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. On December 30, 1903 the "absolutely fireproof", five-week-old Iroquois Theater was engulfed by fire. The fire lasted less than thirty minutes; 602 people died as a result of being burned, asphyxiated, or trampled. The S.S. "Eastland" was a cruise ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915—a calm, sunny day—the
Klamath Theater Complex Fire Siskiyou Complex Fire to . On September 11, the Siskiyou Complex Fire, which had grown to , merged with the Bear Wallow Complex Fire to the east, which was at , creating a massive complex fire that was renamed to the "Klamath Theater Complex Fire". The Klamath Theater Complex Fire continued to expand, reaching a size of by September 22, with containment of the complex fire increasing to 75% by then. The Klamath Theater Complex Fire was finally contained on September 30, 2008, after reaching a size of . Klamath Theater Complex Fire The Klamath Theater Complex Fire, also known