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As Cleveland emerged as a major manufacturing center, the river became heavily affected by industrial pollution, so much so that it caught fire at least 14 times. When it did so on June 22, 1969, news coverage of the event helped to spur the American environmental movement.
The Lucy Walker steamboat disaster was an 1844 steamboat accident caused by the explosion of the boilers of the steamboat Lucy Walker near New Albany, Indiana, on the Ohio River. The explosion occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 23, 1844, when the steamer's three boilers exploded, set the vessel on fire, and sank it. It was one of a ...
Constantinople was burned three times during the Fourth Crusade. 1212 – The Great Fire of Southwark London 1212. The second of the two Great Medieval Fires of London. As many as 3,000 people died on the London Bridge while trying to flee the city. 1251 – Second Fire of Lübeck, Germany, triggers the use of stone as a fire-safe building ...
September 25, 2017 - A tank battery caught fire after a lightning strike, about four miles south of the Canadian River, near Amarillo. [ 187 ] October 17, 2017 - Two oilfield workers were injured after an oil storage tank exploded at an oilfield near Dilley.
A massive fire underneath a bridge spanning the Ohio River closed a heavily traveled route between Cincinnati and northern Kentucky on Friday and damaged part of the steel structure. No injuries ...
Two dead bodies were found in the Ohio River near Cincinnati within a 15-hour span, according to Boone County Water Rescue. On Friday at approximately 8:10 p.m., a Boone County Water Rescue team ...
The Daniel Carter Beard Bridge and both sides of Interstate 471 over the Ohio River are shut down for the morning commute after a massive fire early Friday. “The 471 bridge is going to be shut ...
River fire may refer to: Mendocino Complex Fire, a 2018 California wildfire that consisted of the smaller fires, the River Fire and the Ranch Fire; Cuyahoga River in Ohio, a river famous for catching fire in 1969; River Fire (2020), a wildfire in Monterey County, California; River Fire (2021), a wildfire in Placer and Nevada Counties, California