Earlier this year, wildfires ravaged Los Angeles for almost a month. And it got Bubbler Talk listener, Renee Kubesh, thinking: How have Milwaukee fires shaped the city? Where and how did the fires start?
We know Chicago is known for their great fire and that was 1871. The same year as the most devastating fire in Wisconsin’s history, the Peshtigo fire. The deadliest forest fire in U.S. history. But what about Milwaukee?
Well, the deadliest fire was the Newhall House Hotel Fire, which happened on January 10, 1883. That night over 70 people died in the hotel located on the corner of Broadway and Michigan streets. But that wasn’t the most destructive fire the city’s seen. That happened in the Third Ward, the same neighborhood where Kubesh and her husband, T.J. Morely, work at Eppstein Uhen Architects…