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1905 – Watson Street Lodging House fire in Glasgow, Scotland on November 19, killed 39. [6] 1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [7] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10. 1908 – Collinwood school fire, in Collinwood, Ohio (soon absorbed by Cleveland), on March 4, killed 175.
On May 14, 2015, the Savopoulos house in Northwest Washington was spotted ablaze and firefighters were called. They discovered the three bodies of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper. [9] The police determined the fire was intentionally set, and the victims had blunt-force and stab wounds, leading them to label the deaths homicides. [2]
When Thomas Sweatt saw an attractive man, he would follow him home, but instead of talking to the object of his affection, Sweatt would set fire to the man's house or car. For more than 30 years, Sweatt set hundreds of fires in the metro Washington, DC area. Sweatt often tossed incendiary devices into police cars and then watched them burn.
Stark County Common Pleas Judge Chryssa N. Hartnett sentenced Carr to 23 to 28.5 years in prison for that crime and 12 arson charges for the Raff Road fire and another at 2805 Fairmont St. NE in ...
Twenty-one people lined up to speak about the project at the commissioners meeting Oct. 23, and most of them were opposed to the shelter.
Prison officials later alleged that three prisoners intentionally started the fire as part of an escape attempt, of whom two were said to have committed suicide in the months after the event. Historians have disputed the veracity of this allegation, suggesting it was a means to divert attention from poor management of the fire.
An Akron man faces up to 26 years in prison for setting a fire in September 2022 that injured two firefighters. Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge Jennifer Towell handed down the sentence of ...
In 2010, a long-time inmate of the D.C. Jail claimed that nine years in the D.C. Jail was equivalent to 20 years in another prison. The inmate told of moldy jail cells, questionable strip searches, broken locks on cell doors, staph infections, rodents and violent assaults. US District Judge Thomas Hogan called the conditions at the jail "a shame."