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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.
1985 forest fires burnt 105,000 hectares with the worst affected being around Kavala in eastern Macedonia and Thasos Island in the north Aegean. [11] 2000 forest fires were the worst forest fires to date and included the island of Samos in east Aegean and at Mount Mainalon and eastern Corinthia in the Peloponnese. The burnt area was 167,000 ...
February 26 – Clerkenwell cinema fire in London, United Kingdom, killed 11. [168] November 27 – Fuxin Discothèque fire at Fuxin, Liaoning, China, killed 234. [100] December 10 – 1994 Karamay fire, Karamay, Xinjiang, China, killed 324 (288 pupils and 36 teachers). [7] [100] [101]
2021 – Over 1,000 homes burned, and at least one person died in Marshall, Superior, and Louisville, Colorado in the Marshall fire. 2023 – 2023 Hawaii wildfires. In the most significant wildfire event in Hawaiian history, the city of Lahaina suffered widespread devastation. This fire is believed to have killed 102+ people, destroying over ...
The List of countries by rate of fatal workplace accidents sorts countries by the rate of workplace fatalities per 100,000 workers. Data is provided by the International Labour Organization (ILO). According to estimates, around 2.3 million people die yearly from work-related accidents or diseases every year. [1]
2023 Canadian wildfires Canada: 18,496,051 9 [10] 7 2021 Russia wildfires Russia: 7,800,000–16,100,000 0 [11] 8 2019 Siberia wildfires Russia: 7,800,000 0 [12] 9 2014 Northwest Territories fires Canada: 3,000,000 0 [13] 10 2020 California wildfires United States: 1,779,730 33 [14] 11 2010 Bolivia forest fires Bolivia: 1,500,000 0 [15] 12
The 2023 wildfire season involves wildfires on multiple continents. Below is an ongoing list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2023. Africa
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.