One man’s insatiable greed caused four firefighters to lose their lives while battling a warehouse fire in Seattle’s Chinatown International District on January 5, 1995. Martin Pang, the adopted son...
The Chicago Fire of 1874 had eerily similar origins to the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 albeit on a smaller scale hence it’s sometimes referred to as the “Little Chicago...
In an ironic twist of fate, the fourth deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history was caught on videotape when tragedy ensued on February 20, 2003. A Rhode Island news crew...
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Hartford circus fire leaves 168 dead and hundreds injured July 6, 1944, is known as “the day the clowns cried.” It was a hot day, around...
It was on May 28, 1977, that a fire took the lives of 165 people and injured over 200 others when it leveled a popular supper club in Southgate, KY....
One of French painter Claude Monet’s most famous works of art was destroyed on this day in 1958. A 1925 painting from the famous impressionist’s iconic Water Lilies series valued...
It took a mere 18 minutes for 146 garment workers to tragically die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on this day in 1911. The manmade catastrophe happened late on...
The worst school fire in U.S. history occurred on this date in 1908. A fire erupted on March 4 at Lakeview Grammar School in Collinwood, Ohio killing 172 students, two...