The Great Fire (children's novel) The Great Fire (children's novel) The Great Fire is a story for children and young adults, written by Jim Murphy about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which caused the destruction of most of the city of Chicago. "The Great Fire" was a Newbery medal honor book in 1996. The novel "The Great Fire" is about the great fire that happened in Chicago. The huge fire started in the O'Learys' barnyard and lasted for thirty hours. Daniel "Pegleg" Sullivan was the first to notice the fire and ran to save the cows in the barn and to tell the O'Learys
Great fire of Tartu after the fire, and the money was used to build a stone bridge across the river. The remains of this bridge can still be seen beneath the river Emajõgi but the main part of the bridge was destroyed during the Second World War. Great fire of Tartu The Great fire of Tartu took place on and destroyed most of the city of Tartu in what is now Estonia. The fire destroyed the centre of the city. Tartu had lost most of its major stone buildings when they were blown up in September 1708 on the orders of Peter the Great