That’s a burn area 315 times larger than that of the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, which burned down the city’s business district and spawned the remaking of Pioneer Square in its iconic brick ...

After the Great Fire of 1889, Seattle's past got buried underground and the city became known mostly for places and landmarks like the Space Needle or the vibrant Pike Place Market. Seattle's ...

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...