The Cuyahoga River was so polluted it regularly went up in flames. Images of one dramatic blaze in 1952 shaped the US's nascent environmental movement, long after the flames went out.

Cleveland's Cuyahoga River, once one of the dirtiest in the U.S., has seen a resurgence of life—both on the surface and below. In 1969 it was all but dead; now it has 70 species of fish.

In one Ohio town, the unthinkable happened—a river burst into flames. This wasn’t a freak accident, but a warning sign about ...

The CUYAHOGA RIVER FIRE (22 June 1969) dramatized the extent of the river's pollution and the ineffectiveness of the city's lagging pollution abatement program. The fire, which witnesses reported ...

Enviroment The time the Cuyahoga River caught on fire in Cleveland: The “fake news” that started an environmental revolution. The Cuyahoga River burned several times prior to 1969, but it was ...

The photographs shows the Cuyahoga River burning, taken November 1 from the Jefferson Avenue Bridge. Oil on the river ignited causing extensive damage to the Great Lakes Towing Company's Jefferson ...

A 19-year-old woman was rescued from the Cuyahoga River in Kent after being swept away by fast-moving water, according to the Portage County Water Rescue Team. Skip Navigation.