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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 ...
BOSTON — A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in connection with the shooting death of a 17-year-old New Bedford girl at the Hyatt Regency Boston Hotel in 2021.
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 ]
This is a list of known disasters that have occurred in Massachusetts, organized by death toll. Historically documented events that caused 10 or more deaths are included. Notes: Some of the events occurred prior to Massachusetts becoming a U.S. state. Acts of war are excluded, such as battles of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts.
In 2016, a federal report found the Boston Fire Department’s lack of training to fight wind-driven fires, inadequate staffing, and failure to adequately assess risk played a role in the blaze.
The Hotels Statler Company, Inc., was sold to Conrad Hilton's Hilton Hotels in 1954 for $111 million, then the world's largest real estate transaction. [ 1 ] The Statler hotel in Buffalo was the first to be demolished after the Hilton acquisition, in 1968.