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The Hotel Vendome fire in the United States was the worst firefighting tragedy in Boston history. Nine firefighters were killed during the final stages of extinguishing a fire on June 17, 1972. The Hotel Vendome was on the southwest corner of the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street, in the Back Bay area of Boston.
It is installed along Boston's Commonwealth Avenue Mall, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. [1] [2] The work was designed by the artist Ted Clausen and landscape architect Peter White. [3] A group of firefighters originally proposed the memorial in 1982, but it was not initially approved by the Boston Arts Commission.
The Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial is a memorial in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The memorial was dedicated in 2007, and displayed 870 names, as of September 2014.
When a love story can come from a tragedy, that's something worth celebrating. Boston Marathon bombing survivor to wed firefighter who rescued her Skip to main content
In 2016, a federal report found the Boston Fire Department’s lack of training to fight wind-driven fires, inadequate staffing, and failure to adequately assess risk played a role in the blaze.
But, like other firefighters, the trauma and stress hasn't stopped Olivas from serving the community day in and day out. “That’s what I signed up for is to help in my community. And I love the ...
The Boston Fire Department traces its roots back to 1631, a year after the city was founded, when the first fire ordinance was adopted. In what then was the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the Kingdom of England, the city banned thatched roofs and wooden chimneys.
The younger Gambino, who was 20 at the time, is one of more than 75 sons and daughters of the 343 FDNY members lost on 9/11 — or later succumbed to Ground Zero-related diseases — who went on ...