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First Responders · Cherry, Illinois, United States
The Cherry Mine Disaster
1909
Twelve men rode the cage down seven times.
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First Responders · Hinckley, Minnesota, United States
The Great Hinckley Fire
September 1, 1894
The loggers took the trunks and left the branches where they fell.
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First Responders · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
The Winecoff Hotel Fire
December 7, 1946
The hotel stationery said absolutely fireproof.
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First Responders · Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Ida Lewis
February 25, 1842 - October 24, 1911
She did the lighthouse keeper's job for twenty-two years before anyone gave her the title.
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First Responders · United States
The United States Life-Saving Service
August 14, 1848 - January 28, 1915
The regulations told them to launch.
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First Responders · Scullyville, Oklahoma, United States
The Choctaw Gift to Ireland
1847
In 1847 a group of Choctaw people in Indian Territory took up a collection for the starving poor of Ireland, a country none of them had seen, four thousand miles away.
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First Responders · Nome, Alaska, United States
The 1925 Serum Run to Nome
January 27, 1925
In January 1925 the only doctor in Nome, Alaska sent a telegram out of a town that was frozen in for the winter.
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First Responders · Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States
The Johnstown Flood
May 31, 1889
The club lowered the top of the dam by a couple of feet so that two carriages could pass each other on the road across it.
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First Responders · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Great Molasses Flood
January 15, 1919
The company said anarchists had blown up the tank.
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