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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.
23rd Street Fire; Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire; 1946 Greenville propane explosion; 1999 Russian apartment bombings; 2005 Mumbai High fire; 2006 Mecca hostel collapse; 2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse; 2020 Royal Chapel of Milot fire; 2024 Nileshwar temple fireworks disaster
10 buildings sustained major damage or partially collapsed in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, and 10 others were destroyed, 2 of which were demolished due to heavy damage. [1] Several other buildings sustained varying levels of damage, including every building in the World Financial Center and most of the buildings on Vesey Street. [2]
The area around the incident has been evacuated as firefighters work to tackle the blaze, shooting water jets from other high-rise buildings. By 8.30am most of the fire was out. Key points
One person was killed after an enormous fire Monday night at a suburban Detroit warehouse, known to stock combustible materials, ignited explosions, shook homes and rained down debris as far as a ...
One of them, as the Detroit Free Press reported on Dec. 19, was a three-alarm fire that warranted an evacuation of the building and a halt to production that day of the GMC Hummer EV pickup and ...
March 29 – Stephen Court historic building fire in Kolkata, India, killed at least 42. [77] September 10 – 2010 San Bruno explosion in San Bruno, California, six-alarm fire from a gas main killed eight and destroyed dozens of homes. November 15 – 2010 Shanghai fire, China, [78] high-rise apartment building fire killed at least 53.
Guests enjoy their food during the Detroit Free Press/Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers Top 10 Takeover at Prime + Proper in downtown Detroit on Aug. 7, 2018. A few of Poris McIntosh Architects' higher ...