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The following is a list of fires in high-rise buildings.A skyscraper fire or high-rise fire is a class of structural fire specific to tall buildings.Skyscraper fires are technically challenging for fire departments: they require unusually high degrees of organization and cooperation between participating firefighting units to contain and extinguish.
September 24 – Two-story buildings with cinema complex fire at Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killed 75. October 30 – Four-story complex buildings with Sun-Hun Choe karaoke room fire at Incheon, South Korea, killed 54 and injured 70. December 3 – Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire killed six firefighters.
The First Interstate Tower fire was a high-rise fire that occurred on May 4, 1988, at the First Interstate Tower (now Aon Center) in Los Angeles, California, a 62-story, 860 foot (260 m) skyscraper, then the tallest building in the city. The fire destroyed five floors of the building, injured 40 people, and caused the death of a maintenance ...
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Building City Country Images Deaths Injuries Number of floors affected by fire 1 January 10, 1990 393 Kennedy St [2] Winnipeg Canada n/a: n/a: n/a: 4: 2 January 1, 1991 Mercantile Credit Building [3] Basingstoke UK n/a: n/a: n/a: 3: 3 April 5, 1991 Knowsley Heights [2] [4] Liverpool UK 0: 0: n/a 4 September 6, 1993 Sun Valley Poultry Factory [5 ...
The skyline of Melbourne in January 2024, as viewed from the Shrine of Remembrance. Melbourne is home to approximately 758 completed high-rise buildings. [1] Of those completed and or topped-out, 77 buildings are defined as "skyscrapers"–buildings which reach a height of at least 150 metres (490 ft); more than any other city in Australia.
The International Conference on Fire Safety in High-Rise Buildings defined a high-rise as "any structure where the height can have a serious impact on evacuation" [4] In the U.S., the National Fire Protection Association defines a high-rise as being higher than 75 feet (23 m), or about seven stories.
With possibly earthen core at seven of nine stories. [75] Including a pedastal it had a height of 155 m from 152.77 m. Destroyed by lightning/fire in 534. Kleinreuth radio tower: 124 n/a Nuremberg, Germany 1935-1961 Madona Radio Towers: 116 n/a Madona, Latvia 1932-1944 2 towers with triangular cross section Heilsberg Radio Tower: 115 n/a