Saturday, June 6, marks the date of the tragic 1889 Great Seattle Fire that burned 25 blocks of downtown waterfront Seattle ...

There were reports of heavy smoke coming from the roof of the home.

On June 6, 1889, there were no precise weather records collected at that time, but that spring had been a warm and dry one. On the day of the Great Seattle Fire, an inadvertent spilled glue pot in a ...