11/27/1860 a San Francisco, CA firefighter “died at the Lyceum Theater Fire, Washington & Montgomery streets.”
11/27/1874 a Baltimore, MD firefighter died at “Box No.6 sounded ay 06:05 for a fire at the Marburg Brothers Tobacco warehouse, Charles and Barre Streets. A curing dryer had upset on the top floor of the 4-story brick building. He was taking the hose pipe to the roof of the adjacent building, when he miss-stepped, falling from the roof top to the ground below, and was killed.”
11/27/1913 a Queens, NY (FDNY) firefighter “died as a result of injuries sustained November 24th, when he and several other firefighters were caught under a collapsing wall while operating at a fire in a chemical plant at L.I.C.”
11/27/1929 a Manhattan, NY (FDNY) firefighter “died as a result of burn injuries sustained November 25th, while operating at an alarm.”
11/27/1930 a Swifton, Arkansas firefighter “died while operating at a structure fire.”
11/27/1957 a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “died after being crushed in a collapse.”
11/27/1978 a Nashua, New Hampshire firefighter died while “operating at a 2nd alarm fire on 23-25 East Pearl Street. He suffered a heart attack while climbing the aerial ladder.”
11/27/1978 a Boston, MA firefighter “died of multiple injuries when he fell from a building on Alpha Road Dorchester, Box 3323 {Park & Waldeck Streets} on November 25, 1978.”
11/27/1996 a Branford, Connecticut firefighter was killed in a warehouse fire at Floors and More, Inc., after the roof collapsed, trapping him and two other firefighters inside. Despite having his SCBA facepiece knocked off in the collapse, he stayed on the line and knocked down the fire, so his comrades could escape.
11/27/2007 a Volusia County, Florida firefighter died while “practicing power and chain saw use at the Volusia County Emergency Services Institute near Daytona Beach when a pine tree fell on him, striking his in the head, causing fatal injuries.”
11/27/1678 a fire destroyed large parts of Boston’s north end.
11/27/1899 Passaic (NJ) Beef Company was destroyed by an explosion and fire. Largely devoted to storage located on the Erie Railroad, near the station, the firefighters were driven back by an ammonia leak escaping from tanks and pipes. The fire started in the smoke room and burned slowly but steadily through the plant.
11/27/1912 Waukegan, IL a corn production plant explosion killed four and injured twenty-five that wrecked the starch house of the Corn Products Refining Company. An employee reported “the first flash of flame set fire to the powdered starch in the air and the powder exploded with all the force of dynamite. I have been through several disasters of the same sort. They all start that way. They are unavoidable.”
1/27/1950 the Tower Hotel fire killed four and injured nine in downtown Minneapolis, MN. Twenty residents were rescued by ladder operations when flames blocked their exits eighty other were able to evacuate. Two of the bodies were found on the fourth floor, another was in a tower two floors above the main building.
11/27/1965 police arrested three youths in connection with the arson fire that swept through a crowded downtown Fiore’s Lounge that left one dead and injured nineteen others in Providence, RI. Witnesses reported there was an explosion followed by quickly spreading flames burning curtains along the wall. Fiore’s Lounge is on the first floor of a three-story building; the top two floors were vacant.
11/27/1970 Capitol International DC-8 post-crash fire killed forty-seven in Anchorage, AK.
11/27/2012 a family of five died in a house fire in Republic, OH.
11/27/2014 a fire gutted a candy warehouse and distribution center the Fannie May Fine Chocolates in Maple Heights, Ohio; an ammonia leak hampered operations.
11/27/2014 a Cherokee County barn fire killed more than a dozen horses near Woodstock, GA. A similar fire on November 17, 2014 killed four horses and a cow in a farm on the DeKalb / Clayton county line. “Barn fires are our worst nightmare in the business. Barns are tinder boxes because we use wood shavings, we feed horses hay. Those are all super flammable- materials so they tend to go very fast,” said a neighbor.
11/27/1883 fire engines were called out in New York City and New Haven, Connecticut, as a result of the afterglow of the sunset due to vivid red ash from the Krakatoa Volcano, explosion that began on the afternoon of Sunday, 26 August 1883, thousands of miles away in Indonesia.