SCC Whefen fire

The SCC Whefen fire was a fire in SCC that occured from 2nd to 3rd New Years 1881 CE. It caused most of the citys slums to be destroyed and a portion of aristocratic houses to be damaged.

Timeline
Much of the written timeline was made by the head of the SCC Royal Fire Depatment (SCCRFD), with few testimonies taken from actual residents of SCC, and may have not been entirely accurate.

At 0030, the SCCRFD was alerted to an uncontrolled fire on the edge of [SCC Slum]. As  fires were relatively common in SCC, the RFD sent 3 men in a steamcart with limited firefighting equipment to the location.

At 0100, the SCCRFD was alerted that the fire had spread downwind faster than expected and threatened to spread further into the slum. Limited firebreaks had been amde by the 3 men, who askred for backup. 12 men were dispatched in three steamcarts, which was all the vehicles the RFD had on hand. On the way, another fire happened in another location, causing one of the vehicles to detour.

By 0200, the fire jumped a main road into an aristocratic distric. All focus of the RFD was shifted to preventing the spread of the fire in the aristocratic distric. The fire was sucessfully contained, but had encircled the slums in the meantime, a firestorm had broken out in the slums.

By 0400, the fire had died down, and triage was performed on the victims. Over 2743 victims were killed with 5566 being injured. No member of the aristocracy died, with only 3 sustaining minor injuries escaping their houses.

Causes
The cause is the fire was attributed to a stray firework set off by 14 year old boy Shenwo Shefu with his maternal cousins Chengming and Chengshu Fupo, during New Years. The firework had caught fire on stray whefen stalks by the roadside and caught fire. After the incident, all three were jailed for 3 weeks under the charge of mass involuntary constructive manslaughter.