On 6/6/1889 the Great Seattle Fire destroyed the entire central business district of Seattle, Washington. The conflagration lasted for less than a day, burning through the afternoon and into the night, and occurred during the same summer as fires that destroyed large sections of the Washington cities of Spokane and Ellensburg. Seattle quickly rebuilt using brick buildings that sat 20 feet above the original street level. Its population swelled during reconstruction, becoming the largest city in the newly admitted state of Washington.” “The people have joined with the militia in protecting property from a gang of thieves.” “In the afternoon a woodworking assistant in a cabinet shop on Front Street (today, First Avenue) and Madison Avenue was heating glue over a fire. The glue boiled over, catching fire and spreading to the floor, which was covered in turpentine and wood chips. In an attempt to put out the blaze, the assistant doused it with a pot of cold water. The hot glue exploded, and bits of flaming adhesive spewed across the shop, spreading smoke and fire everywhere.”
On 6/6/1852 a New Haven, Connecticut firefighter died of the injuries he sustained while operating at a fire at a store on Dwight Street.
On 6/6/1897 three San Francisco, California firefighters were “killed while engaged at a three-alarm fire at the Schroth & Westerfield Bakery, on Folsom Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets. While the men were operating at the fire a first collapse happened, and one firefighter was caught in the collapse. His leg was badly broken; two other firefighters tried to rescue him. In the process of the rescue and second collapse happened trapping and killing all three men.”
On 6/6/1900 a Foxboro, Massachusetts firefighter “died as a result of burns and crushing injuries sustained June 1st, while operating at a general-alarm hotel fire. As he and two other firefighters began to descend a ladder that they were attacking the fire from, the building’s tower suddenly collapsed, sending a large bell and flaming debris crashing down on them. Two of the men died later that day on June 1st.”
On 6/6/1910 two Manhattan, New York (FDNY) firefighters “died as a result of inhaling deadly fumes from burning aniline dyes during a two-alarm fire in a warehouse stocked with liquors and aniline dyes. At least twenty-five other firefighters were overcome and experienced breathing difficulties. Some of the men’s faces even turned black from the exposure to the dyes.”
On 6/6/2014 a basement fire in the six-story building quickly ripped through the building ductwork of a TGI Friday’s restaurant near Rockefeller Center (New York, New York) extending to the building’s roof at about 8:45 p.m. Miraculously, no one was seriously hurt. The restaurant and the ductwork were damaged by smoke and fire, but the rest of the building, offices, and residential units above the restaurant, seemed unscathed.
On 6/6/2013 a late-night fire in Mumbai India bank killed four and injured thirty-five, an electrical fault is likely to have caused the fire.
On 6/6/2009 three children die in a house fire from an unattended stove in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
On 6/6/1893 the business portion of the town of Fargo, North Dakota was destroyed by fire.
On 6/6/1795 a fire destroyed ⅓ of Copenhagen; 18,000 were injured.
On 6/6/1752 the 3rd great fire in Moscow in two weeks left over a ⅓ of the city was destroyed.
On 6/6/1242 twenty-four wagon loads of Talmudic books were burned in Paris
