On 11/17/1986 the Learn Not to Burn® Foundation was incorporated in Quincy, Massachusetts. A fire safety education program, available to elementary school children, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) curriculum, includes activities to teach fire safety behaviors for … [Read more...]

On 11/16/1957 in Niagara Falls, New York an early morning apartment fire killed seventeen, including thirteen children, in a three-story frame tenement structure, known as the Moonglow Hotel. The run-down and condemned served as a makeshift home for two large families and two … [Read more...]

On 11/15/1942 six firefighters were killed and forty-three injured in the Luongo Restaurant fire, in East Boston, Massachusetts. Many were trapped under debris for hours after a wall collapsed without warning and after the fire was declared under control. The "Old Armory" … [Read more...]

On 11/14/1921 near Sacramento, California the United States Forest Service held the first National Fire Control Conference. “William Greeley, chief of the US Forest Service, invited the 45 attendees to discuss the inconsistencies in fire control around the country. The … [Read more...]

On 11/13/1877 the National Fireman’s Journal published the first issue with the mission to be “devoted to the interests of the firemen of the country.” Under the name Fire Engineering, the mission has only broadened and is now devoted to the interests of firefighters … [Read more...]

On 11/12/1889 the Miami Hotel a wooden 100-room building was destroyed by a fire that started from a gas stove and extended to Mrs. Maggie Knapp's restaurant, the Greet store, a boarding house, the Miami Metropolis Building, and Joseph McDonald's machine shops and stables in … [Read more...]

On 11/11/1918 at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 World War I ended, with the Treaty of Versailles of 1919; a war that left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded. The war started on June 28, 1914, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the … [Read more...]