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...
Although unfathomable in the safety-conscious world we live in today, a cigarette was carelessly tossed down a trash chute inside a Connecticut hospital, causing a tragic blaze. The 1961 inferno...
In 1958, a tragic incident unfolded at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago, Illinois, leading to three nuns and 92 children losing their lives in a devastating fire....
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...
During the particularly dry summer of 1889, fires ravaged the northwest part of the U.S. Runaway flames damaged Spokane, Vancouver, and Seattle—all major cities in the Washington Territory. One of...
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...
Ironically Atlanta’s Winecoff Hotel touted itself in advertisements and on its stationery as being "absolutely fireproof." Instead of being immune to fire, the Winecoff Hotel is notorious for being...
The intended tropical paradise that was the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub was anything but on November 28, 1942....
The Great Chicago Fire, which occurred over 48 hours on October 8-10, 1871, is considered one of the most famous fires in U.S. history. Urban legend has spurred...
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...