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In March 1982, a fire broke out in the Westchase Hilton Hotel in Houston, Texas. [1] 12 people died in the hotel, which was opened in 1980. A report by the National Fire Protection Association identified one reason for the deaths as inadequate escape routes: the stairways were located at the end of the corridor, so that as the hallways filled ...
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.
The Hilton Boston Park Plaza is a historic hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, opened on March 10, 1927. [3] It was built by hotelier E.M. Statler as part of his Statler Hotels chain. A prototype of the grand American hotel, it was called a "city within a city" and also contains an adjoining office building. It was the first hotel in ...
The Hotel Vendome Fire Memorial commemorates victims of the Hotel Vendome fire. 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 ]
Broadway Central Hotel, Mercer Arts Center: New York, NY, US: Hotel and theaters: 4 dead, at least 12 injured 1973: Zeulenroda Artificial Lake bridge: Zeulenroda, Germany : Bridge (under construction) 4 dead 1974: Makahali River bridge: Baitadi, Nepal: Bridge: 140 dead 1974: Miami DEA building collapse: Miami, US: 4-story office building: 7 ...
On October 1, 2017, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on 22,000 people at a country music festival from his hotel suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel on the Las Vegas strip.
1693 Boston yellow fever epidemic Disease 3,100+ Boston [3] 1911 1911 Eastern North America heat wave: Weather 1,110 Statewide [4] 1633 Massachusetts smallpox epidemic: Disease 1,000 Statewide [5] 1721 1721 Boston smallpox outbreak: Disease 844 Boston [6] 1677 1677–1678 Boston smallpox epidemic Disease 750–1,000 Boston [7] 1942 Cocoanut ...
As of 19 May, according to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 227 mass shootings in 2023, defined as incidents in which four or more people are wounded or killed, not including the shooter ...