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The scene of a house fire in Queens, New York that killed three people, including a 90-year-old woman, on February 16, 2025.
The U.S. Custom House survived the Civil War and various disasters including the 1885 Galveston Fire, the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Hurricane Carla in 1967, and a boiler explosion in 1978 that resulted in the closing of the second floor for almost two decades. Although these events required extensive repairs and renovations, the U.S ...
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The Sonnentheil House is a historic house located at 1826 Sealy Ave. in Galveston, Texas.. After the original Sonnenthiel home was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1885, Jacob Sonnentheil bought a double lot on the northeast corner of 19th and Sealy and built this house.
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1947 New York City smallpox outbreak: disease 2 [172] 1929 1929 Yankee Stadium stampede: mass unrest 2 [173] 1835 Great Fire of New York: fire 2 [174] 2020 2020 New York City Subway fire: rail 1 [175] 2019 2019 New York City helicopter crash aircraft 1 [176] 2007 2007 New York City steam explosion: explosion 1 [163] 1995 Williamsburg Bridge ...
Then there was Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, the animal charged with lighting the match that set the innocent subway rider on fire — thus igniting a hellscape that feels like a metaphor for New York ...
In 2011, the firehouse was threatened with closure after the city administration planned to close 20 fire companies to save money. [4] But after a public campaign to save it, supported by the later Mayor Bill de Blasio and actor Steve Buscemi, who also was a New York City firefighter from 1980 to 1984, [5] the firehouse remains in service. [1]