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1905 – Watson Street Lodging House fire in Glasgow, Scotland on November 19, killed 39. [5] 1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [6] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10. 1908 – Collinwood school fire, in Collinwood, Ohio (soon absorbed by Cleveland), on March 4, killed 175.
1776 – First Great Fire of New York City of 1776; 1776 – Around two-thirds of Varaždin, the capital of Croatia at the time, destroyed in a fire of unknown origin. 1787 – Great Boston Fire of 1787. 100 buildings destroyed in the southern part of Boston. [8] 1788 – First Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, 856 out of 1,100 structures burned.
The Haunted Castle was a haunted attraction at Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park in Jackson Township, New Jersey.The original Haunted House was built prior to the fall "shoulder season" [1] of 1978 to boost attendance and as a test for building a larger facility the following year.
Brigantine Castle was a popular funhouse and haunted house attraction by the beach in Brigantine, New Jersey. It was originally located at the corner of 14th Street and Brigantine Avenue. Constructed in 1976, it drew millions of visitors annually until it was damaged in 1982 in a storm.
It was established that the fire originated in a deliberate act of arson; three people were convicted for this. The inquiry report found that fire spread from new furniture temporarily stacked in a ballroom of size 5.5×9.4×1.8 m; the furniture consisted of dressers made of wood and particle board, mattresses and sofa beds, packed in cartons.
The Eaton Fire ignited Tuesday night near a canyon in the sprawling national forest lands north of downtown Los Angeles and had exploded to more than 10,000 acres by Wednesday, according to the U ...
The 1900 Hoboken Docks fire occurred on June 30, 1900, and killed at least 326 people in and around the Hoboken, New Jersey piers of the Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) shipping company. [1] The piers were in New York Harbor , at the foot of 3rd and 4th Streets in Hoboken, across the North River (Hudson River) from Manhattan in New York City .
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