My family moved there after the last of the fires. We got to witness the cleanup and emergence of a revitalized waterfront in The Flats, this previously industrial area where the river meets Lake Erie.
It is always fun to bring up the times it literally caught fire. The incidents pre-1969 really give credence to a different attitude toward the environment going pretty far back.
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Query: how do EPA-gutting fanbois reconcile the history of recovery from those two newsworthy events?
NB: There is now a "Burning River" craft beer.