Chicago fire of 1871, also called Great Chicago Fire, conflagration that began on October 8, 1871, and burned until early October 10, devastating an expansive swath of the city of Chicago.
As monsoon rains bring added misery, whole towns and villages still stand burned, roofless and silent, devastated by the rampage of destruction that followed East Timor's vote last August to end 24 years of Indonesian occupation.
"As a Garfield student myself, it had a lot of memories and we were devastated when it burned," said Velasquez, a onetime Garfield cheerleader who graduated in 1974 before returning in 1993 to teach.
It was in this park, just over a year ago, that a hiker started a devastating wildfire that burned at least 27,000 acres of parkland.
The reality was that the pain of that devastating curveball still burned in my memory.
At the same time Crimean Tatars devastated Russian territories and burned and looted Moscow during the Russo-Crimean Wars.
That is why it was so devastating this summer when Carbon Hill High School burned to the ground.
A man accused of setting the massive and devastating King fire that burned for more than a month in the Sierra Nevada pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday, authorities said.
The new nation, its fields burned, its plantation manors pillaged, its towns devastated by apocalyptic war, was crushed by the burden of these astronomical reparations, payments that, in one form or another, strangled its economy for more than a century.
