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    A small fire started in Chicago on October 8th, 1871 due to dry and windy conditions. According to a story, the fire began when a cow kicked over a lamp. The dry and windy weather caused the fire to quickly grow out of control. As the fire spread from house to house, the firefighters' water supply ran out, leaving them unable to stop the spreading blaze. Eventually, rain fell and helped extinguish the massive fire that had burned over 18,000 buildings and killed 300 people.

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    A small fire started in Chicago on October 8th, 1871 due to dry and windy conditions. According to a story, the fire began when a cow kicked over a lamp. The dry and windy weather caused the fire to quickly grow out of control. As the fire spread from house to house, the firefighters' water supply ran out, leaving them unable to stop the spreading blaze. Eventually, rain fell and helped extinguish the massive fire that had burned over 18,000 buildings and killed 300 people.

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    A small fire started in Chicago on October 8th, 1871 due to dry and windy conditions. According to a story, the fire began when a cow kicked over a lamp. The dry and windy weather caused the fire to quickly grow out of control. As the fire spread from house to house, the firefighters' water supply ran out, leaving them unable to stop the spreading blaze. Eventually, rain fell and helped extinguish the massive fire that had burned over 18,000 buildings and killed 300 people.

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    There wasn’t much rain in 1871 in Chicago, USA, and the city was dry. The 8th October
    was a very windy night, and a small fire started. According to a famous story, a cow kicked
    a lamp, the lamp fell and it started the fire. Because of the dry, windy weather, the fire
    grew quickly. Soon, it was very big. Chicago’s firefighters ran to the fire. People saw the fire
    and left their homes. They were terrified!
    Then, something horrible happened. The firefighters’ water stopped. There wasn’t any
    water! The big fire was going from house to house and street to street. It was burning
    thousands of houses and the firefighters couldn’t stop it. Finally, something lucky
    happened – it started to rain! Rain fell on the fire and the fire stopped.
    People went back to their homes but there weren’t any houses there. About 90,000
    people lost their homes. The fire burned 18,000 houses, shops, theatres, churches, hotels
    and other buildings, and 300 people died.

    1. When did the Chicago fire start?

    2. According to a famous story, how did the fire start?

    3. What type of weather made the fire grow big?

    4. Why did people leave their homes?

    5. What stopped the fire?

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