Fire prevention week SIDNEY HERALD SUNDAY, OCT. 7, 2012 5B 1540 S. Central, Sidney 433-1659 1-866-433-1659 433-2862 809 East Main, Sidney Your only local retail liquor sales outlet! Lower Yellowstone Rural Electric Assoc., Inc. “Owned by those we serve.” 3200 N. Holly, Sidney • 488-1602 www.lyrea.com NIEHENKE WELDING, INC. www.richlandfcu.com 201 West Holly Street, Sidney • 482-2704 18 East 2nd St., Culbertson • 787-5890 Smith, Lange & Halley, P.C. Certified Public Accountants 433-4510 104 South Central Ave., Sidney You’ll profit from our expereince! Sidney Fire Department 1405 4th St. S.W., Sidney • 488-4898 “Your partner in protection” A Volunteer Fireman Is... The advertisers on these pages thank Richland County firemen for their dedication. It’s Fire Prevention Week: Protect Your Family From Fire Sunday-Saturday, Oct. 7-13 ... a financial advisor Jerry Hughes Edward Jones Investments Firefighter - 9 years ... a HVAC technician Justin Verhasselt Frontier Heating Lieutenant - 9 years ... an investment agent Mike Stewart Investment Centers of America Firefighter - 10 years ... a terminal operator Brady Mueller SemStream Firefighter - 9 years ... a business owner Chad Mueller CM Built Doors Captain - 12 years ... a mechanic Brandon Ligon MDU - Lewis & Clark Firefighter - 10 years ... a business owner Justin King R-E-M Concrete Pumping Captain - 13 years ... a plant supervisor Rob Gilbert III Hiland Partners Firefighter - 11 years ... a funeral director Al McGahan Fulkerson Funeral Home Firefighter - 25 years ... a maintenance tech Delbert Zadow Richland County Housing Authority & Crestwood Inn Firefighter - 23 years ... a fireman Rob Gilbert City of Sidney Fire Marshal & Deputy Rural Chief 21 years ... a banker Brent Torgerson Merchants Bank Lieutenant/Secretary Treas. 20 years ... a field operator Doug Whitney Hiland Partners Captain – 18 years ... a banker Don Garsjo 1st Bank Firefighter -16 years ... a business owner Brian Heck Regal Eagle Deputy City Chief - 15 years ... a banker Brad Franklin 1st Bank Firefighter - 15 years ... a business owner Larry Christensen Tri-County Implement Chief - 13 years ... an accountant Ken Volk CHMS, P.C. Firefighter - 22 years Over 40 Years of Welding Experience Ross Rosaaen 406-433-1007 312 N. Central Ave., Sidney Sunrise Equipment Inc. 2900 West Holly • 488-3112 www.sunriseequipment.biz Portables & Septic Service, LLC Blaine Rogers, Owner PO Box 1003, Sidney 406-433-7586 office 406-489-0915 service Insurance Agency 433-1411 Fairview Insurance Agency 742-5804 203 South Central Ave., Sidney 482-2113 Since 1986
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Fire prevention weekSidney Herald Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 5B
1540 S. Central, Sidney433-1659
1-866-433-1659
433-2862809 East Main, Sidney
Your only local retail liquor sales outlet!
Lower YellowstoneRural Electric Assoc., Inc.
“Owned by those we serve.”3200 N. Holly, Sidney • 488-1602
www.lyrea.com
NIEHENKE WELDING, INC.40 years of service.
See Stan or Ross today! or call 433-1007
312 N. Central Ave., Sidney
www.richlandfcu.com 201 West Holly Street, Sidney • 482-270418 East 2nd St., Culbertson • 787-5890
Smith, Lange & Halley, P.C.Certified Public Accountants
433-4510104 South Central Ave.,
Sidney
You’ll profit from our expereince!
Sidney Fire Department
1405 4th St. S.W., Sidney • 488-4898“Your partner in protection”
A Volunteer Fireman Is...
The advertisers on these pages thank Richland County firemen for their dedication.
It’s Fire Prevention Week: Protect Your Family From Fire
Sunday-Saturday, Oct. 7-13
... a financial advisor
Jerry HughesEdward Jones Investments
Firefighter - 9 years
... a HVAC technician
Justin VerhasseltFrontier Heating
Lieutenant - 9 years
... an investment agent
Mike StewartInvestment Centers of America
Firefighter - 10 years
... a terminal operator
Brady MuellerSemStream
Firefighter - 9 years
... a business owner
Chad MuellerCM Built Doors
Captain - 12 years
... a mechanic
Brandon LigonMDU - Lewis & ClarkFirefighter - 10 years
... a business owner
Justin KingR-E-M Concrete Pumping
Captain - 13 years
... a plant supervisor
Rob Gilbert IIIHiland Partners
Firefighter - 11 years
... a funeral director
Al McGahan Fulkerson Funeral Home
Firefighter - 25 years
... a maintenance tech
Delbert ZadowRichland County Housing
Authority & Crestwood InnFirefighter - 23 years
... a fireman
Rob GilbertCity of SidneyFire Marshal &
Deputy Rural Chief21 years
... a banker
Brent TorgersonMerchants Bank
Lieutenant/Secretary Treas. 20 years
... a field operator
Doug WhitneyHiland Partners
Captain – 18 years
... a banker
Don Garsjo1st Bank
Firefighter -16 years
... a business owner
Brian HeckRegal Eagle
Deputy City Chief - 15 years
... a banker
Brad Franklin1st Bank
Firefighter - 15 years
... a business owner
Larry ChristensenTri-County Implement
Chief - 13 years
... an accountant
Ken VolkCHMS, P.C.
Firefighter - 22 years
Over 40 Years of Welding ExperienceRoss Rosaaen
406-433-1007312 N. Central Ave., Sidney
Sunrise Equipment Inc.2900 West Holly • 488-3112www.sunriseequipment.biz
Fire prevention weekSidney Herald Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 9B
482-3737203 2nd St. NW, Sidney
433-3245900 1/2 S. Central, Sidney
(behind Lone Tree Inn)Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Sun. 11 a.m. to 12 a.m.
Thank you volunteer firemenfor all that you do
for our communities.116 S. Central Ave., Sidney
433-2702
302 E. Main, Sidney
433-1005
Drilling and Production
Sidney • 406-482-4000
Sidney Carburetor & Electric
482-3302303 N Central Ave., SidneyBennett Folstad & Bill Neiss
We Do Small Engine Repair!
433-64001200 S. Central, Sidney
433-1983 • Sidney
Savage Fire Department
... an employee
Mike BenderSidney Millwork Company
Training Officer
... a farmer
Brent HaglerTriple H Farms
... an employee
Shane IversenReed Construction
... a farmer
Troy ConradsenTriple C Farms ~ 3 years
... an employee
Nyle HurleyHurley Enterprise
... an employee
Justin MelroeChampion Technologies
... a businessman
Joel GrimesSavage Ink
...an electrician
Wayne QuinnellQuinnell Electric
... a co-owner
Brady ReuterG & C Industries
... an electrician
Royce MichelettoPrairie Electric
... a farmer
Marty IversenIversen Farms
Secretary
... a farmer
Jeff JorgensenJ & K Farms
It’s Fire Prevention Week!Protect Your Family From Fire!
Sunday-Saturday, Oct. 7-13
CoMMeMoRaTING a CoNflaGRaTIoN
Fire Prevention Week was established to com-memorate the Great Chica-go Fire, the tragic 1871 con-flagration that killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres. The fire began on Oct. 8, but continued into and did most of its damage on Oct. 9, 1871.
According to popular legend, the fire broke out after a cow belonging to Mrs. Catherine O’Leary kicked over a lamp, setting first the barn, then the whole city on fire. Chances are you’ve heard some ver-sion of this story yourself; people have been blaming the Great Chicago Fire on the cow and Mrs. O’Leary for more than 130 years. But recent research by Chi-cago historian Robert Cro-mie has helped to debunk
this version of events.
THe ‘Moo’ MyTHLike any good story, the
“case of the cow” has some truth to it. The great fire almost certainly started near the barn where Mrs. O’Leary kept her five milk-ing cows. But there is no proof that O’Leary was in the barn when the fire broke out or that a jumpy cow sparked the blaze. Mrs. O’Leary herself swore that she’d been in bed early that night, and that the cows were also tucked in for the evening.
But if a cow wasn’t to blame for the huge fire, what was? Over the years, journalists and historians have offered plenty of theories. Some blamed the blaze on a couple of neigh-borhood boys who were near the barn sneaking cigarettes. Others believed that a neighbor of the O’Leary’s may have started
the fire. Some people have speculated that a fiery meteorite may have fallen to earth on Oct. 8, starting several fires that day in Michigan and Wisconsin, as well as in Chicago.
BIGGeST Blaze THaT WeekWhile the Great Chicago
Fire was the best-known blaze to start during this fiery two-day stretch, it wasn’t the biggest. That distinction goes to the Peshtigo Fire, the most devastating forest fire in American history. The fire, which also occurred on Oct. 8, 1871, and roared through northeast Wis-consin, burning down 16 towns, killing 1,152 people, and scorching 1.2 million acres before it ended.
Historical accounts of the fire say the blaze began when several railroad workers clearing land for tracks unintentionally started a brush fire. Before
long, the fast-moving flames were whipping through the area “like a tornado,” some survivors said. It was the small town of Peshtigo, Wis., that suf-fered the worst damage. Within an hour, the entire town had been destroyed.
eIGHT deCadeS of fIRe pReveNTIoN
Those who survived the Chicago and Peshtigo fires never forgot what they’d been through; both blazes produced countless tales of bravery and heroism. But the fires also changed the way that firefighters and public officials thought about fire safety. On the 40th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, the Fire Marshals Association of North America (today known as the Interna-tional Fire Marshals Association), decided that the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire should
henceforth be observed not with festivities, but in a way that would keep the public informed about the importance of fire preven-tion. The commemoration grew incrementally official over the years.
In 1920, President Wood-row Wilson issued the first National Fire Prevention Day proclamation, and since 1922, Fire Prevention Week has been observed on the Sunday through Saturday period in which Oct. 9 falls.
According to the Nation-al Archives and Records Administration’s Library Information Center, Fire Prevention Week is the lon-gest running public health and safety observance on record. The president of the United States has signed a proclamation proclaiming a national ob-servance during that week every year since 1925.
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