The start of the fire is still not quit known. The initial and still most likely cause was determined by the Fire Marshall on scene to be a match or cigarette butt from one of the employees. Smoking wasn’t allowed in the building but many of the workers would sneak on in here and there during their shifts. Other theories on how the fire started, according to the New York Times, have been that possibly one of the engines on one of the sewing machines caught on fire. Whatever the cause of the fire, it was not that that made this incident such a historical event, it was the reason for the 146 deaths and seventy injuries that occurred during the fire.
On February 20, 2003 in West Warick, Rhode Island at The Station Night Club one of the deadliest nightclub fire in United States history, killing 100 people. Over two hundred people were injured and another one hundred and thirty two escaped uninjured. Why did this happen? How did it spread so fast? What was done to prevent catastrophes like this from happening in the future?
The night of December 7, 1946 disaster struck Atlanta’s fifteen story luxury hotel, the Winecoff Hotel. The Winecoff Hotel, built by the architect William Lee Stoddard in 1913, was a hotel once located in Atlanta’s retail district of the city. That winter night in the year 1946, the renowned hotel, known for its advertisement of being “fireproof”, surprisingly caught fire and tragedy took place. The occupancy of the hotel that night was at its max with around 280 guests residing there. Such guests included WWII veterans, prominent highschool students of Georgia attending an event, and various shoppers and travelers.
On Sunday May 12, 1996 there was an accidental fire at a Chapel Hill Fraternity house, called Phi Gamma Delta. The fire killed five and injured three others. The building was seventy years old and had three stories plus a basement. The house had masonry exterior and wood interior structural components. There where nineteen bedrooms on the second floor, the first floor had several bedrooms and the presidential suite.
Their ladders could only reach between the 6th and 7th floor. A larger crowd gathered on the street and witnessed sixty two people jumping to their deaths from the burning building. One hundred forty six employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire were dead on the night of March 25, 1911. Nineteen bodies were found charred against the locked doors and twenty five bodies were found huddled in a cloakroom. The owners, who had survived the fire by fleeing to the building’s roof when the fire started, were indicted on charges of first and second degree of manslaughter in
You awake to some sounds in the middle of the night You go to the source and then to your fright You see your home engulfed in a fire, Was it the kids or a short in a wire? Now you’re in trouble what will you do Call the fire department and they’ll come and help you Hello, in my spare time I am a volunteer fire fighter. Today I am going to talk to you about fire fighter safety. I am going to take you on an adventure through a structure fire scene and explain to you some of the dangers and safety techniques that keep fire fighters safe every day. Imagine this, you are asleep in your big comfortable bed and you are awakened by a glass shattering tone that informs you of a structure fire.
Texas City Disaster 1. The Texas City Disaster was a big explosion of two different ships, the SS Grandcamp and the SS High Flyer, which ended in a high casualty count, multiple injured, and a loss of many goods. The two ships were docked in the Port of Texas City where the Grandcamp was not permitted to load the ammonium nitrate due to port authority. The cause of the fire was the poor packing, transportation, and storage of the ammonium nitrate. The ammonium nitrate was packaged in paper sacks, and then it was transported and stored at high temperatures that caused it to react.
The Independent, in an article about a documentary on the Hindenburg airing on Britain's Channel 4 on Thursday, explains that Jem Stansfield, a British aeronautical engineer who led a team of researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, blew up and set fire to models of the dirigible to rule out possibilities including a bomb and exploding paint. They Independent reports that the actual chain of events, discovered by the scientists, unfolded as follows: The airship had become charged with static as a result of an electrical storm. A broken wire or sticking gas valve leaked hydrogen into the ventilation shafts, and when ground crew members ran to take the landing ropes they effectively "earthed" the airship. The fire appeared on the tail of the airship, igniting the leaking hydrogen. "I think the most likely mechanism for providing the spark is electrostatic," said Mr. Stansfield.
News Report Explosion in Halifax Harbour By: Jagroop Johal Deceber.7th 1917 Yesterday at approximately 9:00am residents of Halifax was devastated by a massive explosion. This occurred in the waters if Halifax harbour. This explosion was caused by a French ammunition ship the Mont Blanc and a Belgian cargo ship the Imo which had collided earlier that morning. The Mont Blanc collided with the Imo at approximately 8:45 yesterday morning. The Mont Blanc had been carrying benzol on its deck which was set on fire by the sparks from the collision.
Written by Ash Mathew. The BP oil spill, or also referred to as the BP oil disaster, is a historical oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th 2010. An oilrig, Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean and leased out to BP had burst into flames because of a gas. The explosion killed 11 men on the rig and severely injured several more. Month of April Deepwater Horizon was a 9-year old drilling unit that was owned by Transocean, a drilling contractor.