Archive for the ‘Fires/Wildfires’ Category
6/15/1904: More than 1,000 people taking a pleasure trip on New York City’s East River are drowned or burned to death when a fire sweeps through the General Slocum steamboat.
Friday, June 15th, 2018Wildfires in Colorado
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018- evacuation of more than 1,300 homes Tuesday
- spreading dangerously close to the resort town of Silverthorne
- getting close to two densely populated housing developments, just 60 miles west of Denver.
IMSR Summary
June 12th, 2018
New large incidents: 3
Large fires contained: 8
Uncontained large fires: 21
Area Command teams committed: 0
NIMOs committed: 0
Type 1 IMTs committed: 3
Type 2 IMTs committed: 2
Source:
Incident Management Situation Report
Reviewing the series of fires and explosions at the Husky Energy refinery in Superior, WI.
Friday, April 27th, 2018“…..What caused the blast?
Authorities said a tank of crude oil or asphalt exploded at the refinery as it was shutting down the plant down for repairs. They have not speculated on what caused that initial explosion or what caused it to re-ignite.
No deaths were reported.
Initial injury reports were unclear. As of early Thursday afternoon, the injury toll was 11 and later dropped to six. The injured were taken to three area hospitals. One person’s injuries were serious….”
Venezuela: At least 68 people died when a fire broke out during a riot in the jail area of a police station
Thursday, March 29th, 2018Kemerovo: At least 64 people, many of whom are believed to be children, perished on Sunday as a massive fire swept through a crowded shopping center.
Monday, March 26th, 2018At least 37 people are confirmed to have died and dozens more are missing in a fire that tore through a shopping centre in the Siberian city of Kemerovo.
Monday, March 26th, 20183/25/1911: the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burns down, killing 145 workers
Sunday, March 25th, 2018February 13, 1945: A series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the city to rubble and killing as many as 135,000 people with the bombing and the resulting fires.
Tuesday, February 13th, 20181/29/1922: At the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, D.C., the accumulated snow on the theater’s roof collapses the building and tons of steel and concrete fell down on top of the theatergoers cusing the deaths of 108 and injuring another 133.
Tuesday, January 30th, 201812/30/1903: The deadliest theater fire in U.S. history as a fire in the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois, kills more than 600 people
Monday, January 1st, 2018“…..Blocked fire exits and the lack of a fire-safety plan caused most of the deaths…..”