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1905 – Watson Street Lodging House fire in Glasgow, Scotland on November 19, killed 39. [5] 1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [6] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10. 1908 – Collinwood school fire, in Collinwood, Ohio (soon absorbed by Cleveland), on March 4, killed 175.
A structure fire is a fire involving the structural components of various types of residential, commercial or industrial buildings, such as barn fires. Residential buildings range from single-family detached homes and townhouses to apartments and tower blocks , or various commercial buildings ranging from offices to shopping malls .
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The Beverly rooming house fire took place at the Elliott Chambers, a low-rent rooming house in Beverly, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1984.Prosecutors alleged that the fire was set by a man whose ex-girlfriend dated someone who lived in the building, eventually convicting James Carver of second-degree murder and arson.
1711 – Great Boston Fire of 1711. Destroyed the First Town-House; 1726 – Reutlingen, Germany, Free Imperial City, 80% of all residential houses and almost all public buildings destroyed, making 1,200 families homeless. 1728 – Copenhagen Fire of 1728, Denmark, two-fifths of the city burned down during three days. 3,650 families became ...
This is a list of high-rise building fires where the flames were seen to involve the façade.. The original dataset used to create this list [1] was found by searching news reports and research literature 1990 to 2019, and it may be biased towards high-profile fires and English-speaking reporting.
The Ocean Isle Beach house fire occurred on October 28, 2007. Shortly before 7 a.m., a four alarm fire severely damaged a three-story beach house on a waterfront lot on Scotland Street in Ocean Isle Beach, a town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. The house was occupied by 13 college students on a weekend vacation and was owned ...