hurting the river and the connecting Lake Erie. The Cuyahoga had caught fire several times before without causing alarm — a polluted river, after all, meant that industry was thriving ...

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. About a mile ...

Jane Goodman, executive director of Cuyahoga River Restoration, a nonprofit group, points to one such fish-and-algae habitat, not far from the riverside fire station that responded to the 1969 fire.

Industrialization helped build the wealth of the United States, but it came a terrible cost for the environment. Like many rivers in industrial cities across the nation, the Cuyahoga River was a ...

The CUYAHOGA RIVER FIRE (22 June 1969) dramatized the extent of the river's pollution and the ineffectiveness of the city's lagging pollution abatement program. The fire, which witnesses reported ...

Then, in the summer of 1969, an oil slick on the river caught fire. For locals, it was nothing new. The Cuyahoga had occasionally caught fire since as far back as the 1880s, with a particularly ...