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Precious Blood Church of Holyoke, Massachusetts, burned on May 27, 1875, killing 78 people. There was a crush of people through the entrance at the back left and many people could not leave. It is one of the deadliest fires in American history, and was also known by newspapers domestic and foreign as "The Holyoke Disaster". [2]
January 23 – Old People's Nurse Home fire at Virrat, Pirkanmaa, Finland, killed at least 26. March 3 – Great Fire of Bedford School, Bedford School, Bedford, England. Act of arson. April 2 – Nursing home fire in Farmington, Missouri, killed 26. [112] May 8 – Woolworth store fire in Manchester, England, killed 10. [113] [114]
The former House of Providence Hospital, which stood at the corner of Dwight and Elm St in downtown Holyoke served patients from 1894 to 1958 The hospital was first founded by the Sisters of Providence on November 7, 1873, in a small dwelling in South Hadley Falls to aid the sick and needy. [ 4 ]
The Palisades Fire, the Eaton Fire and others have burned more than 40,000 acres across Los Angeles since Jan. 7 and destroyed thousands of buildings, including at least a dozen K-12 schools, such ...
Two former leaders of a Massachusetts veterans' home that was the site of one of the deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks at a U.S. long-term care facility on Tuesday resolved criminal neglect charges ...
Official cause and origin of fire remain under investigation. Spencer Fire and Emergency Services shared a post saying two families "lost everything tonight and a third had damage to their home ...
Whiting Farms is a neighborhood in Holyoke, Massachusetts, located to the southwest of the city center, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from downtown.Following the construction of Whiting Farms Road in 1961, the area was developed as a residential and commercial area in the 1960s and 1970s. [1]
The Soldiers' Home in Holyoke is a full-service veterans center and hospital located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which maintains 247 beds in its main nursing facility, and a separate domiciliary care building with 30 full-time residents. The facility provides long-term care and outpatient medical services, as well as dental and social services ...