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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 ...
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 ...
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in connection with the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old New Bedford girl at the Hyatt Regency Boston Hotel.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
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.
A 24-year-old woman accused of knifing a 65-year-old Boston lawyer to death on his houseboat before taking measures to dump his body out at sea found her protests drowned out in the courtroom ...