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On December 14, 1949, mayor-elect John Hynes announced that Kelleher would serve as his fire commissioner. [12] During his tenure as fire commissioner, Kelleher recalled fire badges held by citizens, planned a major fire prevention drive, ordered a study of the department’s gas masks following the deaths of two firemen from gas inhalation, and suspended 15 firemen who had been convicted of ...
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.
4.2 1950s–1970s. 4.3 1980s–1990s. ... Great Boston Fire of 1760. [7] Population: 15,631. ... Boston Film/Video Foundation and Boston By Foot established.
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 ...
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 ).
Fires in Boston (10 P) ... Great Chelsea fire of 1908; Great Chelsea fire of 1973; Great Fall River fire of 1928; M. Malden Mills; Merrimack Valley gas explosions; P.
The Hotel Manger (pronounced Mang-er as in hangar), renamed the Hotel Madison in 1959, was a hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, that operated from 1930 to 1976. It was attached to North Station and the Boston Garden. In 1983, the building was demolished to make way for the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Federal Building.
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 ...