On 2/20/2003 The Station Nightclub fire at 211 Cowesett Avenue, Warwick, Rhode Island left over one hundred dead and more than two hundred injured. The fire started at 11:08 p.m. while the band Great White opened with the song “Desert Moon” using pyrotechnics devices as part of … [Read more...]

On 2/19/1919 A small fire started in the acid storage room of the huge Cove Mills, Stamford Manufacturing Company, a dye extracting facility, a complex of about 25 "fireproof" buildings sprawled over western Cove Island and well up Cove Road in Stamford, Connecticut. “It rapidly … [Read more...]

On 2/18/1889 the Park Central Hotel, 54 High Street Hartford, Connecticut was heavily damaged by a steam boiler explosion. Twenty-two people lost their lives, and many more were severely injured. “The hotel was at full occupancy. The 15-year-old hotel, 5 stories high, initially … [Read more...]

On 2/17/1957 the Katie Jane Nursing Home for the Aged fire killed seventy-two of the 155 residences in Warrenton, Missouri. The fire started in the first-floor annex, attached to the back of the home’s main building, in a linen closet in the two-and-a-half-story facility at … [Read more...]

On 2/16/1968 Representative Rankin Fite, the Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives completed the first 9-1-1 call in the United States in Haleyville, Alabama. The Alabama Telephone Company was the service provider, and this Haleyville 9-1-1 system is still in service … [Read more...]

On 2/15/2013 two Bryan, Texas firefighters died while fighting a fire at the Knights of Columbus Hall. “At approximately 11:20 p.m. a passerby reported a structure fire on Groesbeck Street. The hall was not occupied at the time of the fire discovery. Bryan firefighters responded … [Read more...]