Chicago Fire of 1874 Sides. The fire insurance industry's National Board of Underwriters responded to the fire by demanding widespread changes in Chicago's fire prevention and firefighting efforts, and ultimately encouraged fire insurers to cancel all coverage of buildings in the city in October. Many insurers did halt their activities in Chicago, and only returned to issuing policies in the city after the municipal government adopted many of the suggested reforms. In the immediate aftermath of the fire, there were some attempts to give the event a nickname to correspond with the much larger "Great Chicago Fire" of 1871. On July 17, three days
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