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Detroit on Fire: A Documentary (Constance York 2011) Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11 (TV 2006) Escape: Because Accidents Happen: Fire (TV NOVA 1999) [8] "Fire Wars" (episode of NOVA, TV 2002) Firefighters: Brothers in Battle (1991) Firehouse USA: Boston (TV 2005) Fires of Kuwait (1992) Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone (TV 2006 ...
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 Cocoanut Grove fire was a nightclub fire which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1942, and resulted in the deaths of 492 people. It is the deadliest nightclub fire in history and the third-deadliest single-building fire (after the September 11 attacks and Iroquois Theatre fire ).
A fire roared through the 97-year-old building housing Kamm & Schellinger Company. All off-duty firemen called in to bring the blaze under control. Headlines in History 1950: $100,000 fire hits ...
Fires in Boston (10 P) Pages in category "Fires in Massachusetts" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Great Fall River fire of 1928; M ...
The Great Brink's Robbery was an armed robbery of the Brink's building in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1950. The $2.775 million ($35.1 million today) theft consisted of $1,218,211.29 in cash and $1,557,183.83 in checks , money orders , and other securities.
When Bret Harte visited Howells, he remarked that in Boston "it was impossible to fire a revolver without bringing down the author of a two-volume work." Boston had many great publishers and magazines, such as The Atlantic Monthly (founded 1857) and the publishers Little, Brown and Company, Houghton Mifflin, and Harvard University Press. [67]
The Boston Fire Department was established as the first paid fire department in the United States, and is the largest municipal fire department in New England serving approximately 685,000 people living in the 48.4-square-mile (125 km 2) area of the city proper. Additionally, it actively participates in MetroFire, the fire services mutual aid ...