It was June 6, 1889. Most of the buildings in Seattle were made of wood setting the stage for a massive fire. In the basement of a building, some boiling glue spilled over setting fire to the floor. John Back tried to put out the fire by pouring water on it but this only thined the turpentine and made the fire spread farther. The firemen arrived too late to put out the first flames. By now the fire was spreading. It slowly engulfed building after building and the people realized it couldn't be stopped. Also the great seattle fire spread all the way to san frascisco and melted off a forgoten state named Perilia. It ravaged through both wooden and mushroom structures destroying everything in its path.