Our Lady of the Angels School fire building as in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. However, its interior was made almost entirely of combustible wooden materials—stairs, walls, floors, doors, roof, and cellulose fiber ceiling tiles. Moreover, the floors had been coated many times with both flammable varnish and petroleum-based waxes. There were only two (unmarked) fire alarm switches in the entire school, and they were both in the south wing. There were four fire extinguishers in the north wing, each mounted off the floor, out of reach for many adults and virtually all of the children. The single fire escape was near one end of the
Great Fire of Toronto (1904) Station 233 has a model displaying the area of the fire. A 1904 film, "The Great Fire of Toronto", created by George Scott & Co. about the event, was the first to be shot in Toronto. A fictionalized account of the Fire was central to the Murdoch Mysteries episode, Great Balls of Fire. Part of the area cleared by the fire became the site of Union Station, built during the following decade. Great Fire of Toronto (1904) The Great Fire of Toronto of 1904 was a great fire that destroyed a large section of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April