Category: Cuyahoga River Fire

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The Cuyahoga River was so polluted, it used to catch fire. Now it’s making a comeback, NPR Oct 12, 2024

Firefighters stand on a bridge over the Cuyahoga River to spray water on the tug Arizona as a fire, started in an oil slick on the river, engulfs docks in Cleveland on Nov. 1, 1952.
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The Cuyahoga River was so polluted, it used to catch fire. Now it’s making a comeback

by Scott Neuman, NPR October 12, 2024
https://www.ideastream.org/2024-10-12/the-cuyahoga-river-was-so-polluted-it-used-to-catch-fire-now-its-making-a-comeback

Re-visiting Mayor Stokes’ Cuyahoga River Pollution Tour, 50 Years Later WCPN 6/18/19

Re-visiting Mayor Stokes’ Cuyahoga River Pollution Tour, 50 Years Later
WCPN 6/18/19 by Elizabeth Miller
On June 23, 1969, a day after the fire on the Cuyahoga River, Mayor Carl Stokes took reporters on a four-stop pollution tour. It would turn out to be the last fire on the river. We retraced the tour 50 years later.
by Elizabeth Miller 90.3 WCPN ideastream
The link is here
 
https://www.ideastream.org/news/re-visiting-mayor-stokes-cuyahoga-river-pollution-tour-50-years-later

Cuyahoga River Fire aggregation

1 How a Burning River Helped Create the Clean Water Act 4.17.15 (Allegheny Front)
2 The fable of the burning river, 45 years later Washington Post 6.22.2014
3 After the flames: The story behind the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire and its recovery (Plain Dealer 1/4/2009)
4 Cuyahoga River Fire From Cleveland Historical
5 “Burn On, Big River…” Cuyahoga River Fires The Pop History Dig
6 Cuyahoga River from Wikipedia
7 History Day Website on The Cuyahoga River Fire
8 Growth of The Cuyahoga River: The Ebb and Flow of the River
9 Don’t Fall in the River

10 Cuyahoga River Documentaries

11 Cuyahoga River Online Exhibit from the Great Lakes Industrial History Center.

12 Cuyahoga River Restoration

13 Along the Cuyahoga Audio Program from WCPN

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