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November 15 – 2010 Shanghai fire, China, [232] high-rise apartment building fire killed at least 53. December 8 – 2010 Santiago prison fire . A fire in a prison in Santiago, Chile killed at least 81 inmates in the country's deadliest prison incident.
This is a list of notable fire lookout towers and stations, including complexes of associated buildings and structures. This includes lookout cabins without towers which are perched high and do not require further elevation to serve for their purpose, and also includes notable lookout trees .
The following is a list of fires in high-rise buildings.A skyscraper fire or high-rise fire is a class of structural fire specific to tall buildings.Skyscraper fires are technically challenging for fire departments: they require unusually high degrees of organization and cooperation between participating firefighting units to contain and extinguish.
Pages in category "Building and structure collapses caused by fire" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of high-rise building fires where the flames were seen to involve the façade. The original dataset used to create this list [ 1 ] was found by searching news reports and research literature 1990 to 2019, and it may be biased towards high-profile fires and English-speaking reporting.
The three-and-a-half story brick and cast-iron building at 720 N. Wells St., which rose from the ashes of the Great Chicago Fire with the seventh permit issued during the city’s rebuilding, is ...
A fire lookout (sometimes also called a fire watcher) is a person assigned the duty to look for fire from atop a building known as a fire lookout tower. These towers are used in remote areas, normally on mountain tops with high elevation and a good view of the surrounding terrain , to spot smoke caused by a wildfire .
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