It's called "balloon frame" construction, and thousands of homes around the region have it. A fire that gutted a balloon frame home in Allentown on Sunday started small, with a family making ...

From the late 1800s until about 1940, balloon-frame wood construction was a fast and easy way to construct multi-story homes found primarily in the East and Midwest. The balloon frame uses a ...

Then in Chicago, Augustine Taylor got credit for creating balloon-frame construction ... In those balloon-framed homes, studs ran from the foundation to the roof, a long open space that channeled ...

He said many homes were simply attached to an existing structure requiring construction of only three ... are comprised mostly of balloon frame homes. He said that once fire gets into the walls ...

stated some of those home did not have working smoke detectors and that the fire spread due to the homes sharing a ceiling space on the third flood he referred to as "balloon frame construction ...

He said many homes were simply attached to an existing structure requiring construction of only three ... are comprised mostly of balloon frame homes. He said that once fire gets into the walls ...