The Great 1906 Robloxity Fire

Before the fire
On the late evening of October 8th, 1906, a middle-aged woman went out to feed her cow in the late evening of a young, quickly growing Robloxity. Because the cow had not been fed or taken care of for the past few days, the cow was angry. It eventually got so angry that it knocked over a lantern the woman took to the cow's area. The property that the woman was living in was VERY dry, allowing the lantern to catch the surrounding property on fire. The fire soon spread...

Start of the fire
After the fire ignited, it was a few bits of white smoke, which quickly turned into a house fire. The Robloxity Fire Department was busy fighting a bushfire in Southern Robloxity. The available firefighters could not make it to the farm where the fire was, due to heavy traffic around the area. In less than 10 minutes, the fire rapidly started spreading all over the street. Most Robloxians thought the fire would just be another minor one; however, because the city at that time was crowded and packed with dry, wooden buildings, and sidewalks made of wood, most skyscrapers even had wood as supports. The fire started spreading to a larger neighborhood, with larger buildings and a larger population. The fire eventually hit and destroyed a fire station, which was empty at the time. All the equipment was melted, destroyed, or heavily damaged. The wind eventually picked up and started going to 10-14 miles per hour, eventually making the fire spread to an INSANE amount of area. Entire streets were burnt and spread in literal seconds.

Fire Dept. intervention
The other fire stations started to intervene in the fire, which had merged with all other fires, making it over 3 miles large. On the streets of a low-class neighborhood, small wooden shacks that were usually crowded into tight neighborhoods called "shack-hoods" caught on fire, including barns and farms. Embers started getting into the industrial part of Robloxity, East Robloxity. Warehouses filled with flammables, like coal, oil, and gas were a danger, so most people in the industrial district were evacuated, others stayed behind to prevent the fire from getting into the flammables. Eventually, a massive explosion was heard across Robloxity, and even in Bloxburg and Brickland. A large warehouse filled with over 80 thousand tons of flammables was ignited, causing half of the industrial district to literally explode into pieces. Cars were torn and mangled into small bits, people broke their bones and burnt their limbs, and the roads were cracked into pieces. The fire department ordered an immediate evacuation of Robloxity, sending all 1.1 million people into safety areas, outside the city.

Total destruction of downtown
After the incident at the industrial district of the city, the city was left to burn. Firefighters were ordered to attempt to stop the fires from spreading into the nearby, dense woods of Brickland, which was in a drought at the time. Fire fighters from across the nation arrived in Robloxity at 1:03 AM. Some citizens were trapped in buildings or still evacuating, which caused a problem. The fire grew in a circle like shape around the city, which was closing in on Downtown, where most citizens were. The other 700,000 citizens were staying at a few hotels in Bloxburg and Harris City. The fire managed to cross the Robloxity Canal, and the Bloxia Strait. Eventually, downtown was surrounded by fire. All other major fires merged with the fire, making the sky a light orange with a mix of ashy grey. The fire was so visible that people trying to sleep in Bloxburg complained about a bright orange light that appeared a few miles away. Eventually, embers managed to reach Downtown, causing the only skyscraper in Robloxity at the time - Jackson Tower, over eight stories tall to catch on fire. Eventually, downtown was entirely engulfed by the flames...

Spreading to bloxburg
The fire eventually made it to Bloxburg, burning down the beach area and making its way to the newly founded Riverside Estates area, destroying many buildings. At that point, the President of Robloxia, Noobly Bloxington ordered an immediate evacuation of the Eastern Robloxian Seaboard. All national and state parks would be closed, air traffic would be canceled (even though there were only a few flights in Robloxia at the time), and citizens would leave their homes to safer areas in the south.

Destruction of the suburbs
The suburbs at the time were untouched; however, due to a low number of firefighters, eventually the fire managed to get past the Robloxity River, getting onto the southwest part of the city, which was barely damaged. The suburbs and shops in the southwest part of Robloxity were burned to the ground; the hospital was destroyed in a collapse; and the other industrial part of the city was also destroyed, waking up most people in a 3-mile radius at around 4AM in the morning. Surprisingly, the water around the area managed to catch fire, due to an oil/gas leak. Eventually, 50 fire departments from across Robloxia volunteered to help in the fire. The fire had already made it to the forest near it, causing the fire to explode in intensity and travel at fast speeds. Eventually, the fire department managed to stop the spreading by using experimental flame retardant. The fire managed to burn all of the resources the massive city provided.

End of the fire
Two days after the fire started, a massive rainstorm hit Robloxity, washing away debris and putting out many fires. The rainstorm ended the next morning. The woman who started the fire survived, surprisingly. Many people who had lost family members, friends, their homes and businesses, criticized the woman for being lazy. Eventually, the woman was arrested for "accidental" arson. She eventually was killed in the fire while being transported. The only remnants of the fire were in the outside of the city, blocking it from external influence. Massive smoke clouds covered the area for 9 days, before eventually on October 28th, the city area was finally not on fire anymore.

Aftermath of the fire
Over billions of dollars of damage was done to Robloxity, Brickland, and Bloxburg. 3800 people had died, thousands more lost their homes, businesses, and around 20,000 people were injured. Many had gotten third degree burns, others had been permanently blinded or developed breathing issues, or scarred for the rest of their life. The only thing left in Robloxity was the harbor, which did catch on fire; however, many cargoes had managed to survive the fire. Using the cargo at the harbor, Robloxity built back up in less than 15 years, just in time for the Second Robloxian Civil War. Robloxity abandoned wood and started using more electricity and masonry in their buildings, allowing for the city to become better than before the fire, eventually becoming an industrial powerhouse.

Theories of how the fire started
The most popular theory of how the fire started is the story of a middle-aged woman named Evatiachula. Evatia had supposedly not taken care of her cow for the past few days, making it angry. However, Evatia was really a hard-working middle-class female Robloxian, who couldn't afford much. She spent most of her day working, like cleaning dishes, doing laundry, feeding her animals, and taking care of her two children. Her husband had left for a business trip in Robloxia City, leaving her alone with her children. This debunks the theory; however, it may have been possible that she had been taking a break from doing her chores, allowing for her cow to start building up anger.

Another popular theory is that the neighbors of Evatia had been having a party, and because of a bonfire that they had supposedly built, it created small embers that managed to fly in the wind into Evatia's backyard, where her cow was at the exact time, she had been feeding her cow. Supposedly, the embers managed to get onto the cow, frightening it and causing it to start shaking, eventually knocking over a lantern or shaking off the ember, onto a piece of hay where the fire had apparently started.

Another theory is that Evatia had not been feeding her cow and sent her children to feed the cow instead. Eventually, because the children didn't have experience with the cow, they had accidentally made the cow knock over the lantern.