Hackensack. Iroquois, Vendome. Texas City. Station. Worcester. Each of these single word “descriptors” immediately conjures up images of incidents resulting in disaster for responding firefighters and civilians. In this class, the most important fires in American history are analyzed through a variety of lenses, including building construction, fire behavior, human behavior, and strategy and tactics. Emphasis will be on distilling the lessons from each fire, both from a firefighting and code enforcement perspective.