How Long to Read A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards

How Long Does it Take to Read A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards?

It takes the average reader 3 hours to read A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards by John F Hogan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This compelling history chronicles some of the most intense and tragic fires in Chicago’s storied meatpacking district. Chicago’s Union Stock Yards made the city “the hog butcher of the world,” but the notoriety came at a grievous cost. From their opening on Christmas Day of 1865 to their final closure in July of 1971, The Yards were the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires. That infamous history includes some of the most disastrous conflagrations of a city famous for fire. In 1910, twenty-one firemen and three civilians were killed in a blaze at a beef warehouse—the largest death toll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the constant threat of fire as part of the cost of doing business, shrugging it off with an, “It’s all right, we're fully covered.” For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames again and again, it was an entirely different matter.

How long is A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards?

A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards by John F Hogan is 180 pages long, and a total of 45,000 words.

This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 5 minutes to read A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards aloud.

What Reading Level is A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards?

A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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