Fires were always a serious threat to frontier towns, hillside communities were the most vulnerable. The boomtowns of Bisbee and Jerome all burned to the ground several times during their heyday. With all those coal oil lamps and candles it took only one careless mistake and it was katy-bar-the-door.
The first generation of buildings and houses in those western towns were usually made of wood. By the
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