4/20/2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill or the Gulf of Mexico oil spill) and drilling rig explosion, killed eleven platform workers and injured seventeen others that was finally stopped 7/15/10 when the wellhead capped, after releasing about … [Read more...]

4/19/1995 The Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City, OK bombing killed 168 and left over 800 injured after a Ryder truck containing 5,000 pounds of fertilizer and nitromethane mixture detonated. A massive rescue operation that continued over a period of 17 days and … [Read more...]

4/18/1906 San Francisco, CA a magnitude (Mw) 7.8 earthquake occurred when the San Andreas Fault slipped over a segment about 275 miles long at 5:12 a.m. The subsequent fires killed 315+ and the fire ultimately destroyed over 500 city blocks almost 30,000 buildings of the … [Read more...]

4/17/2013 West, TX a one-story, 12,000-square-foot unprotected wood-frame fertilizer plant (storage and distribution) facility explosion and fire killed fifteen (ten first responders), injured more than 250 and damaged or destroyed more than 500 buildings within a 37-block area … [Read more...]

4/16/1947 the Texas City, Texas disaster killed 581 including twenty-seven firefighters and 3,500 were injured when 2,300 tons ammonium nitrate fertilizer aboard the SS Grandcamp exploded. Smoke was spotted from one of the cargo holds, fearing damaging the cargo the hold was … [Read more...]

4/15/1840 two Manhattan, New York firefighters were killed when they were caught under a collapsing wall while operating at a fire. 4/15/1857 a Baltimore, MD firefighter “died at his home as a result of injuries the injuries he sustained the previous day in a warehouse fire … [Read more...]

4/14/1857 “A fire, starting in a row of five-story brick warehouses, in Baltimore, MD, quickly engulfed the entire row of buildings. Despite the heroic efforts of firefighters to stop the spread of the flames, the fire continued around the corner and engulfed a complex of … [Read more...]