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The Gulliver's nightclub fire occurred in the early hours of June 30, 1974, on the border of Port Chester, New York and Greenwich, Connecticut. The fire killed 24 patrons and injured 19 patrons and 13 firemen. [1] The fire was caused by arson in an adjacent bowling alley that had been aimed at covering up a minor burglary there.
August 2 – Waldbaum's supermarket fire, Brooklyn, New York. Six New York City firefighters died when the roof collapsed, plunging 12 firefighters into the flames. [108] November 5 – A fire at the Younkers Department store at the Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines, Iowa, killed 10 store employees. The store was closed and rebuilt a year after the ...
A New York City security officer has been charged with starting eight fires at two separate Manhattan hotels. Mariano Barbosa Jr.'s alleged habit of starting fires began in 2009 with the latest ...
On August 26, 1995 a fire broke out in the Clark Building of the 100-year-old Hotel St. George in Brooklyn, New York. The fire consumed 4 large buildings and required over 700 firefighters operating 110 apparatus to put out. It consisted of 16 alarms, the largest in Brooklyn's history. There were no casualties. [89]
More than 200 firefighters responded to the massive blaze on West 145th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue just after 2:40 p.m. that left five civilians and four firefighters injured ...
Mills House No. 1 is one of two survivors of three men's hotels built by banker Darius Ogden Mills in New York City (the other being Mills Hotel No. 3). [1] It originally contained 1,554 tiny rooms (7 and a half by 6 feet or 5 by 8 feet) that rented at the affordable rate of 20 cents a night, with meals costing 15 cents, [2] [3] The rooms contained only a bed with a mattress and two pillows ...
Redick was away on a Lakers road trip when the fires first hit the Palisades, but his wife Chelsea got their nanny out of the house, found a hotel and pulled their children out of school.
Hotel Albert, also known as The Albert and Albert Apartments, is a historic hotel and apartment complex located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The hotel was noted for being popular among artists, musicians, writers, and political radicals. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...