Hannah wrote the paragraph below about human errors that were made during the Chicago fire of 1871.
Which quotation from Jim Murphy's The Great Fire
could Hannah add to make her paragraph stronger?
Several key human errors contributed to the spread of
the Chicago fire of 1871. When the blaze first began,
Bruno Goll refused to sound the first alarm, which was
housed in his drugstore. Later, at the courthouse,
Mathias Schaffer instructed
his assistant, William J.
Brown, to sound Box 342 instead of Box 319, sending
firefighters toward the wrong location. When Schaffer
realized his mistake, Brown flat-out refused to strike the
correct box. Even after the fire, Brown was confident in
his decision not to correct the mistake. Finally, as the
blaze raged on, fireman John Dorsey attempted to
sound a special alarm, but accidentally sounded a
general alarm. This meant that additional trucks and
equipment were not immediately sent out to help
O "The fire was under full headway ... before the
engines arrived, and what could be done?"
Chamberlin noted with concern.
O Brown was so stubborn about his decision that even
after the fire he was able to write arrogantly in a
letter that I am still standing the watch that burned
Chicago."
"Turn in a second alarm!" (Chief Marshal Robert]
Williams ordered Dorsey. "This is going to spread!" A
second alarm would bring in additional engines and
men.
O When the engines and hoses were where he
wanted them, [Chief Marshal Robert] Williams turned
to one crew and said, "Now, hang on to her here!”