CHICAGO (CBS) -- On the night of Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, a fire broke out in or ... It of course became known as the Great Chicago Fire. Firsthand accounts of the fire were colorful and horrific.

The most devastating wildfire in Los Angeles history continues to burn, evoking comparisons to The Great Chicago Fire that ...

As California battles the massive Palisades Fire, its sheer size puts the historic Great Chicago Fire of 1871 into ...

The Los Angeles fires hark to the nineteenth-century blazes that ravaged our cities—and point toward an even more flammable ...

Fall 1871: Chicago is a tinderbox ... interested to pick up large cinders about our house... We learned of the great fire that had occurred the night before... It was a wonder that these huge ...

As Los Angeles faces its latest fire crisis, it must look to the lessons of past urban fires that led to sweeping changes and ...