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1963 – Fretz Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, twelve-alarm fire was the largest in city history. 50 homes and multiple businesses destroyed along with original fire building. 1964 – The Bellflower Street Conflagration in Boston destroyed 19 apartment buildings and damaged 11. [citation needed]
Transportation disasters in Pennsylvania (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Disasters in Pennsylvania" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire that has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962. Its original cause and start date are still a matter of debate.
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May 28 – Beverly Hills Supper Club fire killed 165 and injured more than 200 in Southgate, Kentucky; third deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. June 21 – Saint John City Hall fire in Saint John, Canada, killed 21. [103] December 10 – A fire at the Wenonah Hotel in Bay City, Michigan, killed 10. [104]
The Palisades and Eaton fires may be unprecedented in some ways, but they share a common root cause with the 2018 Camp Fire that killed 85 people in Paradise, California, and the 2023 fire that ...
Including 23 deaths from a bus fire during evacuations in Wilmer, Texas [27] 119-120 [28] [29] 1863 New York City draft riots: Riot: New York City, New York: $1–5 million (1863) It was the worst civil unrest in modern U.S. history. Required diverting Union Army troops from the front to put down. 119 1924 Benwood mine disaster: Accident ...