{"id":5563,"date":"2010-10-01T07:05:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2010-09-30T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T15:18:20","slug":"fire-prevention-week-103-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/5563","title":{"rendered":"Fire Prevention Week 10\/3-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 3-9 is Fire Prevention Week<\/strong>. Yes, there&#8217;ll be fire drills on campus. The intent is to remind everyone of the importance of fire prevention and safety.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfpa.org\/\">National Fire Protection Association<\/a> provides a lot of information, including a history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfpa.org\/displayContent.asp?categoryID=1439\">Fire Prevention Week<\/a>, which was established to commemorate the famous Chicago fire that started on Oct. 8, 1871. The fire that destroyed Peshtigo, WI, which began on the same day, was actually &#8220;the most devastating forest fire in American history.&#8221; In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.wi.us\/statutes\/Stat0995.pdf\">Wisconsin Statutes 995.225<\/a> officially designates this week to commemorate both fires.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about these famous fires in newspaper articles written at the time (historians would call them <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/guides\/instruction\/primary.html\">primary sources<\/a>).\u00a0 Search the <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/proquest.umi.com\/login?COPT=REJTPTNiMDQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&amp;clientId=3852\">Chicago Tribune Historical Newspapers<\/a> database or <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.wiscat.net\/homepages\/CustomerWide\/ValidateGlobalIP.asp?cuid=stwi&amp;lid=stwi&amp;dataid=799&amp;term=\">ACCESS NewspaperARCHIVE<\/a> (part of the statewide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badgerlink.net\/\">BadgerLink<\/a> database suite). <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">Ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance if needed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/great_fires.jpg\" alt=\"two newspapers showing coverage of the fires\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 3-9 is Fire Prevention Week. Yes, there&#8217;ll be fire drills on campus. The intent is to remind everyone of the importance of fire prevention and safety. The National Fire Protection Association provides a lot of information, including a history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/5563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2768,34,35],"tags":[875,141,119,3108,3109,783,231,334,611,658,311],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-around-wisconsin","category-campus-connection","category-infogov","tag-anniversaries","tag-articles","tag-databases","tag-fire-drills","tag-fire-prevention-week","tag-government-info","tag-history","tag-newspapers","tag-statutes","tag-web-sites","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5565,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}