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A flash fire killed 16 people on the ninth floor of the Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. [29] The blaze started in a trash chute and swept across the ceiling tiles, killing 7 patients, 5 visitors, and 4 hospital employees, including a physician.
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Hartford Hospital was ranked #2 in Connecticut by U.S. News Best Hospitals and ranked #1 in the Hartford, Connecticut metro region by the same source. [4] The hospital is a major tertiary care facility for the statewide region and is state designated as a Level I Trauma Center, able to care for the most critically injured of patients. It has 45 ...
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
23 April – Virar hospital fire in Virar, India, killed 13. [322] 24 April – Baghdad hospital fire at the Ibn al-Khatib hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, killed at least 82. [323] 28 April – Riga hostel fire in Latvia, killed eight and injured nine. [324] 7 June – June 2021 Pune fire in India, killed at least 18. [325]
A former nurse who killed at least three patients and tried to kill more than a dozen more at nursing facilities across Pennsylvania has been sentenced to life in prison, the state’s attorney ...
The prison opened in 1933 as the "United States Hospital for Defective Delinquents", under superintendent Marion R. King. [3] The land surrounding the prison was used by the prisoners for farming until 1966. In 1977, the federal government returned some of the original 620 acres to the city. [3] Prison riots occurred in 1941, 1944 and 1959. [3]
Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers. From the start of the Civil War through to 1863 a parole exchange system saw most prisoners of war swapped relatively quickly.