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Pages in category "1978 fires in the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The 1978 Agoura-Malibu firestorm was a firestorm fueled by at least eight significant wildfires in the Los Angeles area on October 23, 1978. At around noon that day, an arsonist [1] started a fire that eventually burned 25,000 acres (10,000 ha) from Cornell to Broad Beach in Malibu.
United States: 100 1978 Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978: Blizzard Northeastern United States: $1,075,000,000 (2010) Fatalities estimated 100 2003 The Station nightclub fire: Fire (building) West Warwick, Rhode Island: 4th-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history, killing 100 people and injuring more than 200. 100 2022
1978 fires in the United States (8 P) Pages in category "1978 fires" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
The Waldbaum's Supermarket Fire was a major fire on August 2, 1978, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York City, United States, that killed six FDNY firefighters. The Waldbaum's store at 2892 Ocean Avenue was undergoing extensive renovations, but was open for customers when the fire broke out.
The blast was felt for hundreds of feet and seen for miles, and disabled most of the fire-fighting equipment at the site. One piece of the tank car was launched over 330 feet (100 m), landing in front of a house. The explosion started numerous fires in nearby buildings and torched a number of road vehicles and other rail cars.
The abundance of residential areas in the United States makes implementing this policy difficult, as many fires often threaten some sort of surrounding community. However, since the Ouzel Fire, Rocky Mountain National Park has burned 7 times between 1978 and 2005. [11]
The 1978 Holiday Inn fire broke out at a Holiday Inn hotel located at 1525 West Ridge Road in the town of Greece, New York, United States, on November 26, 1978. [1] [2] The fire was considered notable enough by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Center for Fire Research to document the fire in their 1979 publications.