9/13/1970 the Ponet Square Hotel fire killed nineteen residents in Los Angeles, CA. The four-story 12,000 square feet per floor South Grand Avenue hotel was built in 1907 with an unsprinklered basement that was once a ballroom. An open stair extended flames to the upper floors. … [Read more...]

9/12/1903 a Nashville, TN firefighter died at a wholesale grocery warehouse heavily involved in a fire, with extension to a stove and tinware store next door. “For close to two hours, firefighters poured thousands of gallons of water on the two burning buildings and finally … [Read more...]

9/11/2001 Al-Qaeda initiated a series of coordinated suicide sneak attacks upon the United States that killed over 2,996 including 343 members of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). Two hijacked aircraft flew into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third … [Read more...]

9/10/2010 a fire occurred in a newly constructed lightweight wood frame (Type V) multiple family dwelling in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The fire “almost took the lives of several firefighters and seriously injured at least seven, some of which required hospitalization… The … [Read more...]

9/9/1973 the three-story, wood-frame 30-room, 100-year-old Sedgwick Hotel in Bath Maine was destroyed by a fire that killed three men and a woman and injured eighteen in a building with no fire detection or alarm system and no fire sprinklers. The fire was reported to the fire … [Read more...]

9/8/1934 the SS Morro Castle fire killed 137 of the 549 passengers and crew on board the ship underway off the New Jersey coast. A luxury cruise ship en route from Havana to New York caught fire and burned around 2:50 a.m. The ship was sailing about eight nautical miles off Long … [Read more...]

9/7/1880 two Saint Louis, Missouri firefighters died “while fighting a fire from the roof, the roof collapsed killing the two firefighters and several others were injured.” 9/7/1915 a Bronx, New York (FDNY) firefighter died “trying to help a boy who fell into an excavation at … [Read more...]

9/6/1896 the Yore's Opera House in Benton Harbor, MI was destroyed by fire, twelve firefighters died. “Sometime around midnight, the large four-story brick building of Yore's Opera House started to burn. Before firefighters could arrive, the fire built in ferocity, and the … [Read more...]

9/5/1881 the "Great Thumb Fire" of Michigan, a forest fire killed over 282, burned over million acres, and damaged over 20 townships in less than a day. The fire is known as the Great Thumb Fire, the Great Forest Fire of 1881, or the Huron Fire, burned in Sanilac, Lapeer, … [Read more...]