請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題The fire in San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake was the largest urban fire in history up to that time, only
to be __41__ by the fire following the 1923 Tokyo earthquake. The earthquake and __42__ fire caused an estimated3,000 deaths and $524 million in property loss. Fire that ignited in San Francisco soon after the __43__ of the
earthquake burned for three days because of the lack of water to control it. Damage in San Francisco was __44__ , with28,000 buildings destroyed, 80 percent of which were __45__ fire rather than ground shaking. Fires also intensified the
loss at Fort Bragg and Santa Rosa, California.
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