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| x Great Chicago Fire |
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| x 1981 Bangalore circus fire |
The 1981 Bangalore circus fire is the fire that occurred on 8 February 1981, in a circus in Bangalore, India. 66 persons, mostly children, died and many were injured in the fire.
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| x 1995 Dabwali tent fire | School fire |
The Dabwali fire accident occurred on 23 December 1995 at Mandi Dabwali, a town in Haryana, India.
The incident occurred at the Rajiv Marriage Palace in Dabwali, where the local DAV Public School was holding its annual prize distribution function. A...
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| x 2006 Kolkata leather factory fire | |||||
| x 2006 Meerut fire |
On April 10, 2006 at about 17:30 IST (12:00 UTC), a fire swept through a consumer electronics fair (Brand India Fair) in Victoria Park, Meerut, killing at least 100 people and injuring 150 others. The fire was said to have been caused by a short...
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| x Ladhowal train fire |
The Ladhowal rail disaster on 15 May 2003, was an flash fire which began at 4am on the Frontier Mail train service in India, and engulfed three carriages before it could be extinguished. 39 people lost their lives and another 15 were hospitalised...
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| x Uphaar cinema fire | |||||
| x 1547 Fire of Moscow |
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The great fire of Moscow in 1547 destroyed sections of Moscow which had been built almost entirely of wood. The fire began on June 24, several months after Ivan IV was officially crowned as first Tsar of Russia. The fire swept into the Kremlin and...
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| x 1571 Fire of Moscow |
The Fire of Moscow (1571) occurred in May of that year when the forces of the Crimean khan Devlet I Giray raided the city. The khan set the suburbs on May 24 and a sudden wind blew the flames into Moscow and the city went up in a conflagration....
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| x 2006 Moscow hospital fire | |||||
| x 1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire |
The 1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire began on 14 August 1917 in the city of Kazan, which was then center of governorate within the Russian Empire, destroying the plant and spreading panic in the city on 14–16 August, and it lasted at least until 24...
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| x 1812 Fire of Moscow |
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The 1812 Fire of Moscow broke out on September 14, 1812 in Moscow on the day when Russian troops and most residents abandoned the city and Napoleon's vanguard troops entered the city following the Battle of Borodino. The fire raged until September...
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| x 911 nightclub fire | Nightclub fire | ||||
| x Great Atlanta fire of 1917 |
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The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 began just after noon on Monday, May 21 and was finally extinguished by 10 PM. Destroyed were 300 acres (much of the Fourth Ward), including nearly 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, and 10,000 people were displaced...
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| x Great Baltimore Fire |
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The Great Baltimore Fire raged in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, on Sunday, February 7, and Monday, February 8, 1904. 1,231 firefighters were required to bring the blaze under control. It destroyed a major part of central Baltimore, including...
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| x 1923 Berkeley Fire |
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| x Great Boston Fire of 1872 |
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The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was Boston's largest urban fire, and still ranks as one of the most costly fire-related property losses in American history. The conflagration began at 7:20 p.m. on November 9, 1872, in the basement of a commercial...
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| x Great Fire of 1901 |
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City fire |
The Great Fire of 1901 was a conflagration in Jacksonville, Florida on May 3, 1901. It was one of the worst disasters in Florida history and the largest urban fire in the Southeastern United States.
About noon on Friday, May 3, 1901, in the LaVilla...
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| x Hotel Vendome fire |
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| x Great New Orleans Fire of 1788 |
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The Great New Orleans Fire (1788) was a fire that destroyed 856 of the 1,100 structures in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 21, 1788, spanning the south central French Quarter from Burgundy to Chartres Street, almost to the riverfront buildings. An...
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| x Great New Orleans Fire of 1794 |
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The Great New Orleans Fire (1794) was a fire that destroyed 212 structures in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 8, 1794, in the area now known as the French Quarter from Burgundy to Chartres Street, almost to the riverfront buildings. Another 856...
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| x Great Fire of New York |
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| x Port Huron Fire of 1871 | Wildfire |
The Port Huron Fire of Sunday October 8, 1871 (one of a series of fires known collectively as the Great Fire of 1871 or the Great Michigan Fire) burned a number of cities including White Rock and Port Huron, and much of the countryside in the "Thumb...
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| x Great Salem Fire of 1914 |
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The Great Salem Fire of June 25, 1914, destroyed 1,376 buildings in Salem, Massachusetts.
Franklin H. Wentworth agitated for more fire protection. In an article in the Salem Evening News (March 29, 1910, page 7), he called "Salem in Danger of...
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| x St. Louis Fire |
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| x October 2007 California wildfires |
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The October 2007 California wildfires were a series of wildfires that began burning across Southern California on October 20. At least 1,500 homes were destroyed and over 500,000 acres (2,000 km², or about 770 mi²) of land burned from Santa Barbara...
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| x Great Seattle fire |
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The Great Seattle Fire was a fire that destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle, Washington, USA, on June 6, 1889.
In the fall of 1851, the Denny Party arrived at Alki Point in what is now the state of Washington. After spending a...
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| x Whiskey Au Go Go fire | Nightclub fire | Arson | |||
| x Offset Alpine fire |
The Offset Alpine fire was a 1993 fire that destroyed a Sydney printing plant owned by the company Offset Alpine Printing Ltd. Investigations of the incident by the police and by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission spanned over ten...
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| x Field of Mars Fires | Wildfire |
The Field of Mars Fires in 2002 devastated some 56 hectares (140 acres) of forestry in the Sydney suburb of Gladesville, New South Wales, Australia. Fires closed in on homes on Finch Avenue in East Ryde and Kim Street in Gladesville, resulting in...
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| x Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire |
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| x Brescia Furniture Fire |
The Brescia Furniture Fire was a blaze that started on 11 March 2005, at the Brescia Furniture factory in Ashfield, New South Wales, an inner suburb of Sydney. It took 150 fire crews, from 30 different stations, to control the fire. Two people were...
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| x 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster |
The 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster (also known as the Mount Lyell Disaster and North Mount Lyell Fire) refers to a fire that broke out on 12 October 1912 at the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations on the West Coast of Tasmania. The...
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| x Great Fire of 1892 |
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| x 1900 Hull-Ottawa fire |
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The Hull-Ottawa fire of 1900 was a devastating fire in 1900 that destroyed much of Hull, Quebec and large portions of Ottawa, Ontario. On April 26 a defective chimney on a house in Hull caught fire, which quickly spread between the wooden houses due...
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| x Laurier Palace Theatre Fire | Accident |
The Laurier Palace Theatre fire, sometimes known as the Saddest fire or the Laurier Palace Theatre crush, was a small fire that occurred in a movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on Sunday, January 9, 1927. The fire — reportedly caused by a...
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| x 1904 Toronto fire |
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| x Miramichi Fire |
The Great Miramichi Fire refers to a massive forest fire (or series of fires) which devastated forests and communities throughout much of northern New Brunswick in October 1825. It ranks among the three largest forest fires ever recorded in North...
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| x Great Vancouver Fire |
The Great Vancouver Fire was a conflagration that destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 13 June 1886. The fire began as a brush fire to clear land between present-day Main and Cambie Streets that was...
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| x Halifax Explosion |
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| x Copenhagen Fire of 1728 |
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The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 was the largest fire in the history of Copenhagen, Denmark. It began on the evening of October 20, 1728, and continued to burn until the morning of October 23. It destroyed approximately 28% of the city (measured by...
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| x Copenhagen Fire of 1795 |
The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 started Friday the June 5, around 3 p.m. at the Navy’s old base at Gammelholm in the fleets warehouse for coal and barrels. The fire spread, crossing over Holmens Canal to the quarter around Saint Nicholas Church and...
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| x The Cinema Rex Fire |
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| x Tunguska event |
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The Tunguska event, or Tunguska blast or Tunguska explosion, was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 7:14 a.m. KRAT (0:14 UT) on June 30 [O.S. June 17]...
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| x Sealand Youth Training Center Fire | School fire |
Sealand Youth Training Center was a summer educational camp for young children, located near Hwaseong, South Korea. In the early morning hours of June 30, 1999, the dormitory, housing approximately 430 children and their teachers, was consumed by...
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| x Daegu subway fire |
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| x 2008 Namdaemun fire |
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The 2008 Namdaemun fire, a fire set by Korean arsonist Chae Jong-gi (Hangul: 채종기), severely damaged the Namdaemun, one of the most historically significant gates in Seoul, South Korea, and the first of Korea's National Treasures, on February 10,...
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| x Ålesund Fire |
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The Ålesund Fire happened in the Norwegian city of Ålesund on 23 January 1904. It destroyed almost the whole city centre, built mostly of wood like the majority of Norwegian towns in that era.
The fire started around 2 AM on the island of Aspøya, in...
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| x L'Innovation Department Store Fire | |||||
| x Joelma Fire |
The Joelma fire occurred on Friday February 1, 1974, in the Joelma building, a 25 story building situated in downtown São Paulo, at 225 Avenue Nine of July. It is one of the most notable tragedies to have occurred in Brazil.
A short-circuit in a...
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| x Xuxa Park Fire |
The Xuxa Park Fire refers to a flash fire that erupted on a Brazilian TV soundstage in Rio de Janeiro during a 2001 taping of the children's television show Xuxa Park. The incident is noteworthy for having been captured on videotape, for the press...
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| x Kader Toy Factory Fire | |||||
| x Kaprun disaster |
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The Kaprun disaster was a fire that occurred in an ascending railway car in the tunnel of the Gletscherbahn 2 railway in Kaprun, Austria, on 11 November 2000. The disaster claimed the lives of 155 people, leaving 12 survivors (10 Germans, 2...
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| x Hofburg fire |
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The term "Hofburg fire" refers to any of several major fires that burned in the Hofburg (Royal Court section) of Vienna, Austria. The Hofburg area has been the documented seat of government since 1279. Each fire destroyed different parts of the...
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| x Salang tunnel fire | |||||
| x Bukit Ho Swee Fire |
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The Bukit Ho Swee Fire (Chinese: 河水山大火) is a fire that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore, on May 25, 1961 at 3.20 p.m. Four people died, eighty-five were injured, and 16,000 were made homeless and more than 2,200 attap...
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| x Hotel Corona de Aragón fire |
The "Corona de Aragón Fire, was a fire that killed at least 80 people in the five star "Corona de Aragón" Hotel in Zaragoza on 12 July 1979. At the time of the event the Hotel lodged high-profile General Franco family members Carmen Polo, Carmen...
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| x 1996 Garley building fire |
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| x Cornwall Court Fire |
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The Cornwall Court Fire was a building fire incident in Hong Kong. It began in a nightclub and karaoke bar on the morning of Sunday 10 August 2008, taking the lives of four people, including two firefighters, and injuring a further 55 people.
The...
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| x Pat Sin Leng Wildfire 1996 |
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The 1996 Pat Sin Leng wildfire was a wildfire in Pat Sin Leng, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong on 10 February, 1996 (Saturday). It was the worst wildfire in local history. The disaster killed three students and two teachers of Hong Kong Chinese...
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