Several minutes passed before schaffer looked up from what he was doing and saw flames leaping wildly into the black sky. the light was from a different fire after all; he'd been fooled because this new blaze was almost directly behind the still-flickering remnants of the saturday october 7 fire. he studied the flames, trying to determine their exact location. this wasn't easy because of the distance and tall buildings between him and the flames. in addition, the moonless sky was made even murkier by the swirling, smoky haze. schaffer signaled down the speaking tube and had his assistant strike box 342. this sent engines rumbling through the streets — to a location almost a mile away from the o'learys' barn. what caused schaffer to instruct his assistant to strike box 342, accidentally sending firefighters to the wrong place? the leaping flames in the sky the dark, hazy night and the tall buildings the remnants of the previous fire the loud, rumbling engines

The correct answer is: hazy night and the tall buildings. If you pay attention to the part the writer refers to locating the fire, he says that Schaffer studeied the flames to determine their exact location. In the following line, "[this]" refers to back to locating the fire and he claims it is not easy because of the large buildings. Then, he adds that another difficulty in locating the fire is the foggy (hazy) night that does not let him see clearly where the flames come from.

I agree with the person above me that the correct answer is hazy night and the tall buildings.

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- "the die is cast; i have consented to return if we are not destroyed. thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; i come back ignorant and disappointed. it requires more philosophy than i possess to bear this injustice with patience. i have lost my hopes of utility and glory; i have lost my friend."

i'm on the same lesson : / i really don't want to do it..