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After Fire Destroys Evanston Businesses, Donors Chip In Over $100,000 - Evanston, IL - Online fundraisers are raising money for four Greenleaf Street businesses destroyed by a Jan. 28 fire. ....
For the past two years, Earth Month celebrations in Evanston took place on Zoom. As the city hosts more in-person events, Rachel Rosner, board president of Citizens’ Greener Evanston, said this year’s Earth Month will bring back the collaborative spirit of the city’s climate movement. “It’s like a reunion of the environmental community,” Rosner said.. ....
1585, May 7 The Great Fire of Darlington swept through the wooden buildings of High Row and Skinnergate, rendering 800 of the town’s population of 1,200 homeless. There was no brigade, so the people threw milk and even beer on the flames. It took Darlington 50 years to recover. 1757 The first recorded fire engine – a portable pump – was stationed in the south-west corner of St Cuthbert’s churchyard and the churchwardens were tasked with keeping it “fit for use on any sudden occasion”. 1837 A manual fire engine – one pumped by hand rather than by steampower – was stationed at a sewage works in Park Street (probably where the Royal Mail sorting office is today). Its keys, though, were kept a good sprint away in the police station in Grange Road. ....