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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 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 ]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
On February 4, 2021, 23-year-old American woman Sandra Birchmore (May 1997 – February 2021) was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment. Her death was initially ruled as a suicide by asphyxia; however, federal authorities later determined that her death was a homicide, with a local police officer alleged to have killed her.
On September 7, 1997, a father and son hunting for deer out of season on a hillside in an area of North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest found what appeared to be human bones near the Stoney Fork picnic area [5] along Chestnut Creek, just 9.3 miles (15 km) from Asheville. The bones had been scattered around an area 300 feet (91 m) in diameter ...
Around 6:45 pm, an intense explosion occurred on Boylston Street between Washington and Tremont Streets—an area known as the Combat Zone. [2] The blast tore up a 50-foot (15 m) section of sidewalk and part of the street. The floor under the Paramount Hotel's cocktail lounge collapsed and around 30 of its patrons fell into the basement.