Trivia Wednesday: Fire Poles

     Happy New Year! Welcome back to another year of both Chicago 365 and Trivia. As you may have seen in the previous entry, 2015 will be yet another year of learning new tidbits of Chicago-related knowledge, and sometimes testing your memory thereof.  With that being said, here is the answer to the previous trivia question.  When the Great Chicago Fire Festival failed to fire up, here's what happened. The flames were controlled by an electric ignition switch. The switches got wet, so the ignition system didn't work, which is why the big show of the Festival never got off the ground. And now for the next question:

What is the name of the first person to slide down a pole in a fire station, thus inspiring the concept of the fire pole?

     I'll be back next week with the answer and another question.