Plastimet Inc. Fire Hamilton, Ontario

When Plastimet burned, everything changed. Plastimet Inc. Fire, Hamilton, Ontario: July 9-12, 1997 assembles contemporaneous documentation of a major canadian industrial disaster. Measured and unsentimental, the volume reads like a fire investigation report and an environmental impact study in one - a primary record of the chemical fire aftermath and the early assessments of public health risk. Authorship is listed as unknown, which only reinforces the document’s status as immediate evidence rather than retrospective narrative. It lays out chronology, municipal responses and technical observations with the clarity demanded by investigators, while preserving the human and urban context that makes it indispensable to studies of Hamilton, Ontario history and 1990s canadian events. Practitioners of emergency response planning will find operational detail; engineers and safety officers will recognise an industrial safety resource; journalists and historians will find this urban disaster documentation useful as a government policy reference and as material for wider analysis.Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.As both historical evidence and a quietly powerful archive, this record sits between municipal chronicle and technical dossier. Casual readers seeking clear, factual narratives of late-20th-century incidents can follow the chronology and local colour; classic-literature collectors and archivists will prize the authenticity of a primary document and its provenance within Hamilton’s civic memory. For courses in policy, safety and urban studies, the book serves as a case study collection and reference that links immediate incident reporting to longer debates about public health risk and regulatory change. Its sober tone and documentary character make it useful not only to specialists but to anyone drawn to the material culture of crisis and the study of how cities and institutions respond when industry fails.