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Transportation disasters in Pennsylvania (3 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Disasters in Pennsylvania" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
1963 – Fretz Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, twelve-alarm fire was the largest in city history. 50 homes and multiple businesses destroyed along with original fire building. 1964 – The Bellflower Street Conflagration in Boston destroyed 19 apartment buildings and damaged 11. [citation needed]
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The Harwick Mine disaster was a mining accident on January 25, 1904 in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, some sixteen mi (26 km) north of Pittsburgh in the western part of the state. The blast killed an estimated 179 miners and 2 aid workers. [1] [2] The disaster ranks among the ten worst coal mining disasters in American history. [3]
Cloosh Valley saw the worst of these fires with 1,500 hectares (5.8 sq mi) of forest damaged. [10] 2017 – A series of wildfires, burn across Pedrógão Grande and Nodeirinho in Portugal, killing at least 66 people and injuring at least 204 others.
Since Wilmington was founded nearly 300 years ago in 1733, fires have made their mark on the city numerous times. Nine of the worst fires ever to hit Wilmington, and how they changed the Port City ...
May 28 – Beverly Hills Supper Club fire killed 165 and injured more than 200 in Southgate, Kentucky; third deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. December 10 – A fire at the Wenonah Hotel in Bay City, Michigan, killed 10. [43] December 13 – A fire in the Aquinas Hall dormitory at Providence College in Rhode Island, killed 10 students.