Date - Year - Town - State - Alarm - Location - Info

Jan 01, 1865 - Louisville - KY - Galt House Hotel - Extended to warehouses & factories, $1,000,000 loss

Jan 01, 1871 - New Orleans - LA - 70 buildings and 6 steamships burn

Jan 01, 1873 - New York - NY - Fifth Avenue Theater burns - Wall of theater adjacent to Fifth Avenue Hotel collapsed causing considerable damage to that building $190,000 loss

Jan 01, 1926 - Pasadena - CA - Structure Collapse - Rose Parade - Wooden grandstand collapsed - 11 people die - 200 injured.

Jan 01, 1963 - West Philadelphia - PA - 9 Story warehouse fire plus three other buildings burn

Jan 01, 1976 - Beruit - Lebanon - Lebanese Boeing 720 crashes, 82 dead

Jan 01, 1976 - La Louviere - Belgium - 69 Nightclub Burns, only one exit, 15 dead, 37 injured

Jan 02, 1874 - Wilkes-Barre - PA - Frauenthal's Opera House destroyed by fire - Fire started by an exploding lamp in restaurant on lower floor

Jan. 02, 1957 - Rome - NY - Fire at the Black River Blvd. Shopping Center - 5 stores destroyed, $1,000,00 loss

Jan 02, 1976 - Tel Aviv - Israel - Haaretz Newspaper building, ext. to 5 other structures over 1 sq. mile, 28 hour k/d, largest fire in Tel Aviv history

Jan 03, 1896 - Drummondville - QC - Benoit block, ext. to 8 store blocks, hotel, post office, 2 houses, $100,000

Jan 03, 1905 - Hoboken - NJ - 15th St. & Adams, 4 story brick warehouse destroyed, 1 firefighter killed.

Jan 03, 1905 - Huntington - WV - Towboat Defender (in Ohio River) - Boiler explosion - 29 dead - 9 injured

Jan 03, 1905 - Morristown - PA - Noveski home - 9 dead (2 adults - 7 kids) - 1 injured

Jan 03, 1957 - Tupper Lake - NY - Holland House Hotel and three stores destroyed by fire $300,000 loss

Jan 03, 1957 - Unadilla - NY - 150 year old Unadilla House hotel burns - Fire started in doll shop spread rapidly through hotel and two stores

Jan 03, 2001 - Oak Orchard - DE - Eleven family members died when fire swept through their home

Jan 4, 1906 - Akita - Japan - Mine Explosion, 101 dead

Jan 4, 1946 - Texas - TX - Tornadoes kill 29, injure 100, leave $2 million damage.

Jan 04, 1976 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 1338 - Patchogue Oil Terminal Gowanus Canal

Jan 5, 1946 - Fairbanks - AK - Hardware store & 3 commercial bldgs destroyed, temp was - 15, $500,000 loss

Jan 06, 1846 - Rome - NY - The American Hotel was destroyed by fire along with entire block on the north side of Dominick Street - One life was lost.

Jan 06, 1871 - Unknown town - Iowa - 115-year-old woman dies in fire -

Jan 06, 1961 - San Francisco - CA - Thomas Hotel fire - 22 people died

Jan 07, 1609 - Jamestown - VA - First English settlement in "New World" destroyed by fire - Settlers suffer from hunger and cold winter conditions as most food and supplies destroyed

Jan 07, 1946 - New York City east side - NY - 18 unit tenement burns, 2 dead, 6 injured.

Jan 07, 1950 - Davenport - IA - Mercy Hospital fire - 41 people died

Jan 07, 1956 - Buffalo - NY - 3 story brick German Catholic Children's Orphanage admin bldg., 1 firefighter inj., 4th alarm

Jan 07, 1996 - Northeast - USA - Blizzard of 1996 causes over 100 deaths

Jan 08, 1906 - Haverstraw - NY - Rutland St., land collapse, fire in fallen tenement bldgs., 14 dead, 50 injured

Jan 08, 1908 - Schenectady - NY - State Street - Ellis Hotel destroyed by fire

Jan 09, 1906 - Minneapolis - MN - West Hotel, gutted, 9 dead, incl. MFD captain

Jan 09, 1912 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - Equitable Life Insurance Society Building, 120 Broadway: the early morning fire started in the basement and spread through the elevator shaft to other areas of the multistory building; subfreezing temperatures and water transformed the scene into gigantic ice sculptures; 6 people died, including a chief fire officer; the building burned for more than 36 hours and was a total loss.

Jan 09, 1912 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm plus 3 alarms - Box 15 - Broadway at Pine - Equitable Building - Line of Duty Death

Jan 09, 1982 - New Brunswick - Canada - 5.8 Richter Scale felt throughout New England

Jan 10, 1883 - Milwaukee - WI - Fire Fatal - Newhall Hotel 6 Story Wood Frame - Fire floor 1 spread up elevator shaft to all floors - 71 of 300 guest die - Guest Tom Thumb & wife survive fire - Firefighters Hermann Strauss carries 16 servants girls located on top floor to safety, over ladder laid over 20 ft alley from next bldg

Jan 10, 1900 - Dawson - Yukon Territory Canada - Business district was wiped out again by a fire that started in the Monte Carlo Theatre and spread through the saloons and music halls on both sides of Front Street. By 1900, the danger of fire diminished through improved fire protection and equipment, and the fact that more buildings were made of galvanized iron and tin.

Jan 10, 1908 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - 4th Ave at East 19th Street - Parker Building - Line of Duty Death

Jan 10, 1924 - Tabor City - NC - Tabor City factory destroyed by fire

Jan 10, 1946 - Washington - DC - Standard Oil plant, 5+++ alarms, 43 apparatus.

Jan 10, 1976 - Fremont - NB - 6 story brick Pathfinder Hotel, gas explosion & fire, 18 dead, 80 injured.

Jan 10, 1991 - Rome - NY - Rome Art and Community Center burns

Jan 11, 1820 - Savannah - GA - Fire destroys 460 buildings, mostly residential

Jan 11, 1916 - Schenectady - NY - 143 Barrett - Rooming house fire - 6 killed

Jan 11, 1986 - Boyd's - MD - Farmhouse fire kills 4 children and 2 adults

Jan 12, 1906 - New York City - NY - Water St., Chamberlain & Co., lubricating oil, $100,000

Jan 12, 1917 - Haskell - NJ - DuPont Powder Mills - Mammoth explosion felt and heard 50 miles away

Jan. 12, 1930 - Arlington - VA - Navy Wireless Station (call sign NAA) in the vicinity of Columbia Pike and Courthouse Road (area known as Radio Arlington, or simply Radio) - House fire that caused $5,000 damage. Company 1 laid 900 feet of house and pumped water for 45 minutes. A total of 15 members of Company 1 answered the alarm, which was struck at 10:30 p.m. The firemen left the scene at 1:30 a.m.

Jan 12, 1953 - Longbeach - CA - Sabre Jet plowed through four homes setting them afire and killing four

Jan 12, 1956 - Pusan - S. Korea - Ferry boat burns, 66 dead, 22 injured

Jan 13, 1837 - St John - New Brunswick Canada - 115 houses burned and nearly all the business part of the city

Jan 13, 1908 - Boyertown - PA - Rhoads Opera House - 170 lives lost

Jan 13, 1967 - New York (Queens) - NY - 5th Alarm (Brooklyn 5 Alms, Manhattan 3 Alms) - Box 4758 - Jamaica Gas Explosion

Jan 14, 1871 - Mississippi River - USA - Steam Ship TL McGill burns - 65 lives lost

Jan 14, 1969 - Pearl Harbor - HI - Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Enterprise hits by explosions taking 27 lives

Jan 14, 1983 - San Francisco - CA - 3rd Alarm - Market Street - Fire sweeps through two buildings that includes John's Grill which was made famous in the as Sam Spade's hangout in the Maltese Falcon - $2,000,000 loss

Jan 15, 1865 - Emerela, Ecuador - Conflagration all but destroys town, damage over $100,000

Jan 15, 1874c. - Helena - MT - On a bitter cold morning, a fire started in a Chinese gambling house (2nd major fire that started here in 5 years). Half of the business section went up in flames for a loss of about $850,000. Feeling ran high against the Chinese in this fire and residents armed with six-shooters made the Orientals man the big pump - The Sheriff, Seth Bulock, arrived to quiet the crowd that was abusing the Chinese as they pumped

Jan 15, 1896 - Buffalo - NY - Perry & Mississippi Sts., Jewett Stove Works warehouse, genl alarm, $250,000

Jan 15, 1946 - Instanbul - Turkey - Golden Horn area, many government warehouses destroyed by fire, $7 million loss.

Jan 16, 1882 - Cincinnati - OH - General Alarm - Box 423 - Dalton and Kenner St in Queensgate American Oak + Leather Co 3 FF injured

Jan 16, 1895 - Butte - MT - Keyon-Connell building explodes - Fire extended to Butte Hardware - Gunpowder blasts kills entire fire department and 3 cops - Total 75 dead - $1 million loss

Jan 16, 1895 - Butte - MT - Keyon - Connell bldg. explodes, ext. to Butte Hardware, gunpowder blasts kill entire F.D., 3 cops, total 75 dead, $1million loss

Jan 16, 1946 - Marseilles, France - RAF Transport plane crashes during blizzard, 22 freed British POWs & 2 crew killed, 3 injured

Jan 16, 1952 - Stephentown - NY - 10 room dwelling destroyed by fire with 1 elderly occupant dying

Jan 16, 1967 - Chicago - IL - 9th Alarm - McCormick Place fire - Exhibition Hall, six year old - During a house wares manufacturing exhibition - 1 security guard killed in early morning fire - 500 firefighters and 94 pieces, including fireboat, to scene

Jan 17, 1869 - Nashville - TN - Cherry Street at Broad Street - Entire block succumbs to fire - $40,000 loss

Jan 18, 1956 - Lake Charles - LA - Oil tanker S.S. Salem Maritime, explosion & fire, 23 dead, ext. to 3 oil barges, also destroyed.

Jan 19, 1952 - Sandspit - British Columbia Canada - Northwest Orient Airlines DC4 Crashes - 36 killed -

Jan 19, 1994 - Evans - NY - Sturgeon Point Road and Depot Street - 3 story former Red and White store on is destroyed - Temperature was 10 below zero, the coldest day in 63 years

Jan 20, 1909 - Chicago - IL - "Appalling and Disastrous Fire" - Dunne Street at 68th Street - Water Crib Fire - Water crib, next to tunnels under construction, sheltered employees while working during the winter months - 60 workers die and several others were forced to jump into the lake to try to save themselves - Fire occurred during morning shift change, therefore many more workers were on site than normally would be

Jan 21, 1866 - Rome - NY - Fire in tenement house at Dominick Street and Jay Street spread to five dwellings, a barn and a lumber storehouse

Jan 22, 1896 - Ekaterinoslan - Russia - Theatre fire, 41 killed

Jan 22, 1906 - Philadelphia - PA - 8th St., St. Paul's Baptist Church, small fire, 18 dead, many injured in stampede.

Jan 22, 1940 - Evans - NY - Highland Lodge Hotel on Old Lake Shore Rd is destroyed by fire, damage estimated at $ 35,000.

Jan 23, 1906 - Port Jacarapagua - Brazil - Warship Aquidaban blows up, 212 killed

Jan 23, 1985 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 798 - 11th Ave at West 43 Street

Jan 24, 1856 - Rome - NY - White Warehouse on the Erie Canal and several business James Street burn

Jan. 24, 1952 - Rome - NY - South James Street - Queirolo Block, 4 story building containing the Crescent Bowling Alley burns in below zero degree temperatures

Jan 25, 1865 - Buffalo - NY - 298 Main St., Diehl Restaurant ext. to 13 stores, American Hotel, 3 firefighters killed, $600,000

Jan 25, 1865 - Buffalo - NY - 298 Main Street - Diehl Restaurant fire extended to 13 stores, American Hotel, 3 firefighters killed, $600,000 loss

Jan 25, 1946 - New York City Staten Island - NY - waterfront, 4 piers, 3 warehouses, 2 barges destroyed, 3 hours, high winds, $500,000+

Jan 26, 1906 - Schenectady - NY - South Centre Street - Close Brothers Feed Mill destroyed by fire

Jan 26, 1906 - Turtle Island - BC - Steamer Valencia blown onto rocks off Vancouver Island, 79 dead

Jan 26, 1950 - Yukon - Canada - US Military Transport Plane Lost near Snag Yukon - 44 killed -

Jan 26, 1969 - Dunnville - ON Canada - Victoria Hotel, 13 people died

Jan 27, 1896 - Pont~Y~Pridd - Wales - Explosions in 2 coal pits, 160 killed

Jan 27, 1920 - Rome - NY - Weiss Block burns

Jan 27, 1946 - Charleston - VA - 10 buildings destroyed, $500,000+

Jan 27, 1946 - Kansas City - MO - Apartment house destroyed, 10 dead (5 adults, 5 children)

Jan 27, 1956 - Long Beach - CA - Ford Plant, flood, then fire, $3 million loss, 5 inj.

Jan 27, 1967 - Cape Kennedy - FL - Flash Fire kills 3 astronauts on Apollo launch pad in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight, the AS-204 mission.- Astronauts Lt. Col. White, Lt. Col. Grissom, and Lt. Commander Chaffee

Jan 28, 1946 - New York City Lower Manhattan - NY - three tenements destroyed, 3 dead, 300 homeless

Jan 28, 1946 - Newport - RI - Barge off coast burns, 2 dead

Jan 28, 1950 - Cucamonga - CA - Pioneer Winery Fire - 1 person killed - Seventy-five 40000 gallon tanks filled with wine each exploded as they became super heated from the fire - Firefighters fought the fire in knee deep port wine - $1,000,000 loss

Jan 28, 1956 - Baltimore - MD - St. Rose of Lima Church hall, fire during dinner, 12 dead, 121 hospitalized, 100 treated o/s.

Jan 28, 1978 - Kansas City - MO - Coates House Hotel fire - 28 people die

Jan 28, 1986 - Cape Canaveral - FL - First Space Shuttle disaster - Teacher Sharon "Christa" McAuliffe of Concord NH and Framingham MA perished among several other astronauts

Jan 29, 1931 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm + 3rd Alarm - Box 982 - Columbus Ave at West 66th Street - Lincoln Arcade

Jan 29, 1944 - Stephentown - NY - Stage Game Refuge Road - Occupied dwelling destroyed by fire, 1 elderly occupant died

Jan 29, 1946 - Oklahoma City - OK = Tinker's Field air force supply centre, 15 acre principal hangar destroyed, 10 dead, 43 injured, $750,000

Jan 29, 2003 - Essex VT - fully involved farmhouse at Hallett's Farm on Rte 128. Mutual Aid tankers from Westford, Fairfax, Underhill/Jericho, and Richmond shuttled water from dry hydrant in Westford and hydrant in Essex.

Jan 29, 2003 - Kinson - NC - Explosion in the West Pharmaceutical Services plant; 3 people died and more than 20 were injured

Jan 30, 1874 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 69 - Strobel Picture Frame Factory fire, Canal + Elm $36,000 loss

Jan. 30, 1884 - Rome - NY - South James Street - Saulpaugh block and Armstrong Block

Jan 30, 1909 - Schenectady - NY - Arcade Building destroyed by fire

Jan 30, 1946 - Elk Mountain - WY - United Air Lines plane hit mountain, 21 killed.

Jan 30, 1976 - Chicago - IL - 6326 North Winthrop - Wincrest Nursing Home fire - Minor fire with heavy smoke - 15/23 residents die 30 injured, nurse's aide charged with murder

Jan 31, 1882 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - Potter Building fire

Jan 31, 1906 - Butte - MT - Butte Reduction Works, $500,000

Feb 1, 1906 - Panama City - Panama - Large block of houses destroyed, $500,000 damage

Feb 01, 1906 - San Francisco - CA - U.S. Troop Transport Meade at Folsom St. Wharf, forepart of ship burns, 5 firefighters, 2 crew killed.

Feb 02, 1860 - New York - NY - Elm Street - Tenement fire kills approx 200 dwellers - Laws at that time did not require fire escapes

Feb 02, 1885 - New York - NY - 108 Wooster Street - Steinhardt Bros. - 6 story masonry construction - Factory fire extended to numerous houses & tenements - $1.5 million loss

Feb 02, 1908 - Rome - NY - During a blizzard, blaze broke out in the Ethridge, Benner, and Hammond Blocks - Aid from Syracuse and Utica

Feb 02, 1946 - Baltimore - MD - Bel Air Bowling, 6th Alarm, explosion & roof collapse, 1 firefighter killed, 2 seriously injured, ext. to 8 stores,

Feb 02, 1946 - Cleveland - OH - Jennings Hall nursing home destroyed, 13 dead

Feb 03, 1885 - New York - NY - Barclay Street - Major & Knapp Lithographers - 5 story marble - Fire extended to 3 tenements - 17 escaped - 1 firefighter killed - $275,000 loss

Feb 03, 1895 - Montceau-Lesmines - France - Colliery - Firedamp explosion - 30 dead

Feb 03, 1916 - Ottawa - Ontario - Canada - Parliament buildings are destroyed by fire

Feb 03, 1939 - Syracuse - NY - Fatal fire - 223~227 Genessee Street - Collins Block - 5 story brick - 8 firefighters killed in structure collapse when fire was nearly extinguished

Feb 03, 1976 - Guatemala - Guatemala - Earthquake, 17,000 dead, 54,000 injured, most buildings destroyed. 1 million homeless

Feb 04, 1885 - New York City - NY - Barclay St., 5/ marble Major & Knapp lithographers ext. to 3 tenements, 17 escaped, 1 firefighter killed, $275,000

Feb 04, 1900 - St. Louis - MO - Between Third and Sixth Streets, Franklin Ave and Morgan Street - Four retail blocks of city destroyed by fire - $1,5000,000 loss - One fireman was killed

Feb 04, 1946 - Boston - South Boston, Irish - American Athletic Hall destroyed, Cap. Stephen Gunn, Firefighters Ed. Barrett killed, 7 others injured, 4hrs, 5++ alarms

Feb 04, 1976 - New York City Manhattan - NY - 6 story brick OMD, gutted, 10 dead (2 adults, 8 kids), 3rd alarm.

Feb 05, 1881 - Pensacola - FL - Halifax Street - Delmonico's Saloon and four adjourning buildings burned out

Feb 05, 1881 - Rome - NY - Dominick Street - Adrich's Cigar Factory, Kingsley Building on James Street and an adjoining store damaged by fire - $40,000 damage

Feb 05, 1881 - St. Louis - MO - Second Street at Christy Ave - Greeley-Burnham Grocer Warehouse destroyed by fire - $400,000 loss

Feb 05, 1905 - Birmingham - AL - Robert Garity and Company, and the Earle Building were among several concerns in the principal business district to be destroyed by fire - Aid requested from Atlanta, Chattanooga and Gadsden - Request for aid was later cancelled when winds shifted to a favorable direction

Feb 05, 1923 - Wichita - KS - Apartment building fire, in the "ghetto", kills 5 residents

Feb 06, 1871 - New York State - NY - Hudson River Railroad - Oil train burns and bridge collapses killing 21

Feb 06, 1885 - New Brunswick - NY - Pennsylvania Railroad, freight vs. oil train, 2 factories, 6 houses, hotel, bridge burned, 2 dead, $1 million

Feb 06, 1885 - New York - NY - Gold Street - Stahlar Leather - Fire extended to 2 bldgs. - $225,000 loss

Feb 06, 1897 - Hallstead - PA - Building next to the silk mill used as a store room for finished lumber - Mutual Aid Great Bend - $5000 loss

Feb 07, 1812 - New Madrid - MO - Most destructive of a series of earthquakes in region occurs - Felt as far away as Quebec Canada to the north, Washington D.C. to the east, and New Orleans to the south

Feb 07, 1892 - New York - NY - Hotel Royal fire - 28 people died

Feb 07, 1896 - Somerville - NJ - Fire destroys principal buildings, then flood fills streets to 10', $150,.000 damage, 1 dead.

Feb 07, 1904 - Baltimore - MD - 80 city blocks involving 1300-1500 buildings razed by fire - $150,000,000 in damage - No lives lost - This fire pointed out the need to standardize fire hose couplings

Feb 07 , 1905 - Rome - NY - Merchant Iron Mill burns

Feb 07, 1967 - Montgomery - AL - 25 die in 11 floor penthouse restaurant fire atop the Walter Bragg Smith apartment building

Feb 07, 1982 - unknown town - unknown state - Fatal fire - historic farmhouse on Broadway

Feb 08, 1690 - Schenectady - NY (Then a Dutch Colony) - Village attacked by French and Indian - Town burned 60 killed 27 taken prisoner "The Massacre of Schenectady"

Feb 08, 1865 - Philadelphia - PA - 50 buildings burned - 20 persons killed 1oo,ooo loss

Feb 08, 1902 - Paterson - NJ - Over 500 buildings destroyed by fire

Feb 08, 1915 - Rome - NY - Corcoran Block burns

Feb 08, 1976 - New York (Queens) - NY - 3rd Alarm - Box - 6057 Roof Collapse Liberty Ave at 117th Street - Line of Duty Death

Feb 09, 1913 - Schenectady - NY - Hotel Bellevue burned

Feb 09, 1942 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 852 - North River at West 48th Street - Ship fire - USS Normandie

Feb 09, 1971 - Southern - CA - Major earthquake kills 65 causing $500,000,000 damage

Feb. 9, 1983 - Rome - NY - Barney Levitt Hardware Store burns

Feb 10, 1914 - Schenectady - NY - Moderate Earthquake

Feb 10, 1973 - New York (Staten Island) - NY - 3rd Alarm - Box 2586 - Liquefied Tank Fire

Feb 10, 1981 - Las Vegas - NV - Hilton Hotel, Fire broke out in the 8.th floor of the 30-story building, 8 people died, 252 were injured

Feb 11, 1865 - New York - NY - John Street - Bakes and Company Cotton and exposures $100,000 loss

Feb 11, 1865 - New York City - NY - John St., Bakes & Co. Cotton & exposures $100,000

Feb 11, 1885 - New Glasgow - Nova Scotia - Vale Colliery - explosion kills 130

Feb 11, 1885 - New Glasgow - NS - Vale Colliery, explosion kills 130

Feb 11, 1885 - West Philadelphia - PA - Insane Asylum, 18 dead

Feb 11, 1915 - Independence - MO - Disastrous Music Hall Fire - Mutual Aid Kansas City Missouri and Kansas City Kansas

Feb 12, 1883 - Schenectady - NY - Union Avenue - Home of Andrew McMullen destroyed by fire

Feb 12, 1885 - Schenectady - NY - Clute's Hat factory destroyed by fire

Feb 12, 1946 - Tallman - NY - Convalescent Home, 5 dead, 2 injured

Feb 13, 1856 - Canandaigua - NY - Chamberlain Block of buildings destroyed, including the Ontario County Repository and Ontario Times - $40,000 loss

Feb 13, 1871 - Princeton - IL - The Republican newspaper office and several stores destroyed by fire - $20,000 loss

Feb 13, 1912 - Schenectady - NY - Oneida Hotel destroyed by fire

Feb 13, 1956 - Gerze - Turkey - 800 bldgs ( 2/3 of town) wiped out, 3,000 homeless.

Feb 14, 1899c. - Dawson - Yukon Territory Canada - Fire destroyed nine buildings

Feb 14, 1923 - New York - NY - Maiden Lane - 6 story office building housing 40 jewelers and silversmith destroyed by fire - Many safes crashed into cellar as walls and floors gave way and topped on top of the bounty

Feb 14, 1923 - Omaha - NE - Armour Processing Plant - Three 9 story buildings involved in fire, plant in ruins

Feb 15, 1899 - New York City (Brooklyn) - NY - Brooklyn Navy Yard - Largest building (#28) in yard destroyed by fire $2,000,000 damage in 1899 dollars

Feb 16, 1943 - Troy - NY - Landslide kills 18 people

Feb 17, 1865 - Charleston - SC - City fired by retreating rebel forces, many buildings, destroyed, Wilmington Depot explodes, ~300 killed

Feb 17, 1896 - Troy - NY - Broadway & River Sts., 6 story brick Burdett Bldg., 5th floor to all, 30 dead, many injured, $400,000

Feb 17, 1946 - Kingston - Jamaica - Kingston Mental hospital, infirmary destroyed, 15 patients killed

Feb 18, 1906 - Duluth - MN - Peavy & Co. Duluth Elevator containing 1 million bushels of grain dest. $1 million

Feb 18, 1967 - Hawthorne - NJ - General Alarm - Chemical plant fire

Feb 19, 1885 - Philadelphia - PA - Chestnut St., commercial bldg, wall collapse kills 2 firefighters

Feb 19, 1886 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 416 - St. James & Nassau - Captain "Doc" Payne Engine 15 dies from injuries from a fall

Feb 19, 1901 - Houston - TX - Hutchins House - Five Story hotel with 300 guests. A Predawn Kitchen fire spread quickly destroying the building - No deaths or injuries Thieves ransacked the rooms of the belongings left behind as rescuers attended to the guests. The thieves also plundered the cigar stands and saloon inside the hotel

Feb 20, 1885 - New York - NY - 324 27th Street - Marvin's Safe Co. - 8 story brick - $230,000 loss

Feb 20, 1891 - New York - NY - Train Crash and Fire - 4th Avenue Tunnel - 2 trains collide catching fire and killing 6

Feb 20, 1947 - Los Angeles - CA - Pico Blvd., Stanford Ave area - Blast at the O'Connor Electroplating Company destroyed/damaged more than 55 structures in a 300-foot radius - 15 died - 150 people injured

Feb 21, 1869 - Chicago - IL - 520 West Lake Street - Brown Brothers grocers destroyed by fire

Feb 21, 1871 - Hancock - NY - Harness shop, photo gallery, variety store, and a restaurant destroyed by fire

Feb 21, 1885 - New York - NY - Beaver Street and William Street - Fire - Restaurant, offices and Apartments - 6 dead - 1 firefighter killed - 50 rescued

Feb 21, 1994 - Mohawk - NY - Ice-jam flooding on Fulmer Creek; 40 homes were evacuated as water reached 6' deep. Some cars were completely submerged as a result of the ice jam.

Feb 22, 1902 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 443 - Park Ave at East 34th Street - Armory

Feb 22, 1946 - Muskegon - MI - 8 2 story brick stores & apts destroyed, $1.5 million loss.

Feb 23, 1871 - Savannah - GA - Great Fire - $250,000 in lost property

Feb 23, 1991 - Philadelphia - PA - Meridian Plaza - 38 Story High rise office building - Heavy started on floor 22 and took 18 hours to extinguish - 3 firefighters killed

Feb 25, 1843 - Cincinnati - OH - Pugh and Alvord - Pork House fire, Walnut and Canal, J.S. Chamberlain, Hook and Ladder Co. killed, 13 firemen injured

Feb 25, 1871 - Grinnell - IA - Grinnell School house, 2 story buildings burns down - $10,000 loss

Feb 26, 1906 - So. Bethlehem - PA - Bethlehem Steel Plant, Office bldg. & Machine Shop, $200,000

Feb 26, 1920 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 3rd Alarm - Brooklyn Union Gas Williamsburgh - Line of Duty Death

Feb 26, 1993 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 16 total Alarms World Trade Center explosion

Feb 27, 1882 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 23 - Miami Soap and Oil Works again, 1 FF injured

Feb 27, 1975 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 465 NY Telephone Building 2nd Ave at East 13th Street

Feb 28, 1902 - South Buffalo - NY - Flood waters with floating ice from the Buffalo River & Cazenovia Creek wrecked outhouses, wooden sidewalks, boxes and barrels. Several families rescued from the 2nd floors of their homes.

Feb 28, 1911 - Schenectady - NY - Schenectady Storage Warehouse hit with big Fire

Feb 29, 1896 - New York City - NY - 130 Thomas St., 5 story brick Wellington Bldg., clothiers, 5th flr>

Mar 01, 1946 - Liverpool - UK - Liner Empire Waveney (Former USS Milwaukee), 16,754 ton liner, destroyed at berth. $8.9 million loss.

Mar 01, 1955 - Brownsville - OR - Brownsville Woolen Mill Destroyed by Fire

Mar 01, 1965 - LaSalle - QC - Explosion - 3 Story Apt Bldg Gas explosion - 28 killed, mostly children

Mar 02, 1872 - Toronto - ON - Canada - Ridaut's hardware store and French's clothing store destroyed by fire - Loss $10,000

Mar 02, 1925 - United States - US - Highway Numbering system was introduced on this date - This first system of highway numbering standardized road signs identifying routes - This is perhaps why road signs notifying a driver that they are approaching a fire station shows a very old truck design!

Mar 02, 1939 - Halifax - Nova Scotia - Canada - Queen Hotel holocaust - Twenty-eight persons perished

Mar 03, 1872 - Scranton - PA - Hyde Park section - Odds Fellows, Graebers Hotel, Hyde Park Hotel and five other building destroyed by fire - $70,000 loss

Mar 03, 1895 - Anderson - IN - Natural Gas explosion destroys commercial block - Fire extended to several others - 2 dead - $400,000 loss

Mar 03, 1912 - Chicago - IL - 655 South Clark - Salvation Army hotel - Barnett House Hotel - 22 dead - many injured

Mar 04, 1897 - Rome - NY - Bingham Block burns

Mar 04, 1908 - Collinwood - OH - Lakeview Elementary School: a fire at around 9:30 a.m. destroyed the wooden structure in Collinwood, a city of 8,000 people 7 miles northeast of Cleveland; 174 children and two teachers were killed

Mar 04, 1964 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 2179 - 5th alarm plus 6 companies - 400 firefighters battle fire in Balwin Warehouses

Mar 05, 1910 - Rogers Pass - British Columbia Canada - Avalanche - 62 killed

Mar 08, 1953 - Buffalo - NY - General Alarm - Downtown district - 10 story warehouse building destroyed by fire - Fire spread to an exposure building across the street

Mar 09, 1871 - Alleghany City - PA - Robinson and Riely Cooperage, large complex destroyed by fire - $35,000 loss, 150 workers out of work

Mar 09, 1871 - Cedar Falls - IA - Overman Block containing several stores and the public library destroyed by fire - $75,000 loss

Mar 09, 1871 - Lacon - IL - George Street - Drug store, grocery, bakery and some dwellings destroyed by overnight fire

Mar 09, 1871 - Sioux Falls - IA - The International Hotel destroyed by fire

Mar 09, 1945 - Tokyo - Japan - Fire levels 16 squares miles - 83000 killed and 41000 injured - 250,000 buildings destroyed

Mar 10, 1871 - Petroleum Centre - PA - Great fire causes $150,000 damage - Fire started in the Buffalo House and spread to several other wooden structures - 58 stores and dwellings burned along with many barns over a five acre area

Mar 10, 1872 - New York - NY - Carteret Street in Old Bergen - Stable fire spread to five newly constructed wood frame houses destroying them $30,000 loss

Mar 10, 1970 - Seattle - WA - Hotel-Fire, 19 people died

Mar 11, 1884 - East St. Louis - IL - Fire that started in a barber shop spread to several wood frame buildings then jumped railroad tracks to the massive Chicago and Alton grain company - Fire got into a grain elevator containing over 300,000 bushels of corn, 50,000 bushels of oats, and 20,000 bushels of oats - The contents burned much like oil and illuminated the sky for quite a distance - Loss nearly $1,000,000 - 7 wood frame houses were also destroyed as well as 100 freight cars

Mar 11, 1918 - United States - US - First case of Spanish Flu reported - Over the next two years this influenza would claim the lives of 1 of ever 100 persons worldwide, or 22,000,000 deaths.

Mar 12, 1863 - Paterson - NJ - The old Gun mill (better known at the time as Ryle's Mill) - Due to a brisk wind blowing the flames gained considerable headway. In a few minutes the whole roof was in a blaze and as the burning timbers fell below, it set fire to the lower floors. The Gun mill at this time was four stories high with a belfry. It was never rebuilt.

Mar 13, 1871 - Depere - WI - Court-house and jail set ablaze by one of two prisoners destroying the building and killing both prisoners

Mar 13, 1993 - Eastern - USA - Storm of the Century - Blizzards, tornadoes cause 280 deaths from March 12 through March 14

Mar 14, 1897 - Elkins - WV - Davis Avenue - Elkins Furniture and Hardware fire on floor 2 extended throughout building and extended to entire wooden business block in a brisk wind - Town had no fire department, only a bucket brigade - Hardware store was stocked full of oi1s and varnishes. Powder kegs in another hardware store exploded - The wind shifted and the fire jumped across the street to several buildings which were damaged. - All of the buildings on the west side Davis Avenue between Third and Fourth Streets were leveled, and at Fourth Street the fire jumped across the street and caught the Randolph Hotel - Businesses and residences destroyed or damaged were: The Elkins Furniture and Hardware Company, Granville Harvey's store, E.M. Peart's residence, J. H. Fout's store, the Inter-Mountain newspaper and printing offices, James S. Posten's residence, Dr. L. W. Talbot's drug store, Harwoods Elkins Cash Grocery, William Pettingale and Company's Clothing store, Monroe's bookstore, Nusbaum's clothing store, Darden's feed store, the Hotel Randolph, the Elkins National Bank, Wilhide's Drug store, Keim's grocery store, Cunningham's restaurant and pool room, Stalnaker's saloon Feight's stable, Platz's bakery, Davis' barber shop, Brandley's jewelry store, Stark Reger's law office, Hanrod's cigar store, the Bee Hive store, the railroad offices and Wilmer's stable.

Mar 14, 1941 - - xx - xx - Prairie Blizzard causes deaths in Three Canadian Provinces and United States - 76 killed -

Mar 15, 1848 - Rome - NY - Fire starting at the jail spread to the Courthouse, and the Methodist Church

Mar 15, 1871c. - Forestville - NC - Forest Manufacturing Company was totally destroyed by fire (occurred on a Sunday)

Mar 15, 1891 - Syracuse - NY - Lock Street near James Street - Saint James Episcopal Church destroyed by fire - One civilian perished

Mar 15, 1906 - Peublo - CO - 2 passenger trains collide, burn, 40 dead, 50 inj.

Mar 15, 2004 - Augelica - NY - Alm's House Fire - 250 long care facility - 9 residents perish

Mar 16, 1906 - Camden - NJ - Sixth Regiment Armory Fire at West and Mickle Streets - 3 firefighters killed

Mar 16, 1912 - New York - NY - 2 Sylvan Place - Rooming House - 3 story wood frame rooming house - Building destroyed - 6 rescued by police

Mar 16, 1939 - Butte - MT - South Montana Street - big warehouse fire

Mar 17, 1886 - Schenectady - NY - (East of City) Mills of the Shaker township destroyed by fire

Mar 17, 1899 - New York - NY - Windsor Hotel fire

Mar 17, 1932 - Rome - NY - Murphy Memorial Hospital fire - 2 1/2 story building used exclusively as a maternity hospital - Ten women and nine infant rescued over ladders

Mar 17, 1980 - Hoosick Falls - NY - Hotel Fire - 3 killed - Historic 100 year old hotel destroyed

Mar 17, 2005 - Yellowknife - NWT Canada - Fire at a hardware store shed - Shed collapsed on two firefighters, severely injuring one and causing fatal injuries to a second firefighter - This was the first firefighter death in the city - The fallen brother had only been on the job a couple of weeks

Mar 18, 1802 - Schenectady - NY - Emmanuel Baptist Church burned

Mar 18, 1865 - Central NY State - NY - Major spring flooding - Syracuse to Rochester - south into Pennsylvania - "worst in decades"

Mar 18, 1905 - New York - NY - Ten Firemen of Engine Company No. 137, were overcome at a fire on a boat lying at the head of Meserole Street. In the hold of the boat was stored a large quantity of hemp. A boatman saw smoke and steam coming from the forward hold and alerted the fire department. As the firemen reached the boat there was a series of small explosions caused by gases generated in the hemp. Damage to the boat was trifling. The ten Firemen were knocked out by the fumes from the burning hemp

Mar 18, 1931 - Joliet - IL - Statesville Prison - 7 buildings burn in prison riot

Mar 18, 1937 - New London TX - Explosion and subsequent fire in a school building due to a gas leak in the heating system; 500 people, mostly children, died -Schoolhouse destroyed - 290 die

Mar 19, 1902 - Schenectady - NY - New York Furniture Company - Heavy damage due to fire

Mar 19, 1958 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 342 Factory/Loft Broadway at Houston

Mar 20, 1912 - McCurran - OK - San Bois Coal Mine, explosion, 105 dead.

Mar 21, 1788 - New Orleans - LA (Then a colony of France) - Good Friday Fire destroys 900 of the city's 1025 buildings

Mar 21, 1885 - Trenton - NJ - Capital Building Destroyed

Mar 21, 1916 - Paris - TX - Most of town destroyed by fire as over 1400 buildings burn

Mar 21, 1925 - Quebec - QC - Earthquake 6.75 on Richter Scale noted in Fremont NH history

Mar 22, 1866 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 34 - 1866 Pike Opera House Fire injures 3 firemen, destroys $1,753,025.00 property, and eight buildings

Mar 22, 1916 - Nashville - TN - Over 600 buildings burn in residential section of city

Mar 22, 1960 - unknown location - USA - Clyde Elliott house burned

Mar 23, 1901 - Schenectady - NY - Schenectady Locomotive Works hammer shop destroyed by fire

Mar 23, 1993 - Chicago - IL - Paxton Hotel, 1432 North LaSalle Street: four-story brick building with single room occupancy used as permanent or semi-permanent residency

Mar 24, 1882 - Cincinnati - OH - General Alarm -Box 12 - 131 West Front St Holmes Bakery, 1 civilian killed

Mar 25, 1872 - New York - NY - Canal Street at Mott Street - Wagner and Schneider furniture factory destroyed by fire - $250,000 loss

Mar 25, 1872 - Oswego - NY - East Bridge Street - Judson's block nearly destroyed by fire $30,000 - loss

Mar 25, 1911 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 4th Alarm Fatal Fire - Box 289 - 23 Washington Place - Triangle Shirtwaist Co. - 10 Story bldg - 146 workers die

Mar 25, 1990 - New York (Bronx) - NY - Fire Fatal - Box 2974 - Southern Blvd at Tremont Ave - Happy Land Social Club - fire kills 87

Mar 26, 1881 - Cincinnati - OH - 3rd Alarm -Box 4 - 5th and Elm Donaldson Co. 3 FF injured

Mar 27, 1895 - Milwaukee - WI - 20 businesses and YMCA destroyed - $1 million loss

Mar 27, 1906 - Kane - PA - Wickham & Johnson Livery Stable, ext. to Town Hall, 10 other bldgs.

Mar 27, 1964 - Anchorage - AK - Earthquake registering 8.4 on the Richter scale claims 117 lives

Mar 27, 1968 - Jamestown - ND - Historic Gladstone Hotel and seven other businesses were lost to fire Mar 28, 1906 - Johnstown - PA - 5 story brick Swank Hardware, ext. to 4 commercial bldgs, house, 1 firefighter killed by coll. wall, $800,000

Mar 29, 1953 - Fairchild AFS - WA - World's largest bomber (at the time), a ten engine B-36, crashed on takeoff killing 7 crew members

Mar 29, 1953 - Largo FL - Fire in a nursing home, 35 people died

Mar 29, 1963 - Fayetteville - AK - Fire at University of Arkansas Band Building - Blaze fed by exploding containers of paint thinner in basement - Instruments, uniforms and equipment destroyed in the fire. Damage $60,000.00

Mar 31, 1953 - Cheektowga - NY - Fatal fire - School building destroyed in flash fire killing 14 young students and injuring 22 others.

Apr 02, 1881 - Cincinnati - OH - 3rd Alarm - Box 513 - 8th and RR tracks Robinson Wagon Company fire

Apr 02, 1896 - Brunswick - GA - Bay Street and Monk Street area - Fire started at the Plant System dock from a pile-driver engine - Stores, warehouses, and hotel reduced to ashes - Waycross, Savannah and Jacksonville Florida were called in to help extinguish the flames - $500,000 loss

Apr 04, 1843 - Schenectady - NY - New Central RR Station catches fire and spreads to and destroys several other buildings including Givens Hotel, a blacksmith shop, a tobacco shop, a warehouse and several barns

Apr 04, 1900 - Kansas City - MO - Convention Hall, Lathrop School and 2nd Presbyterian Church destroyed by fire - Convention Hall was to hold national Democratic Convention that summer

Apr 04, 1956 - New York (Bronx) - NY - 4th Alarm - Box 2904 - 3 Ave at East 175th St. Marquee Collapse - Line of Duty Death

Apr 05, 1895 - Wurremberg District - Germany - River Eyaen floods, 50 dead

Apr 05, 1949 - Effingham - IL - St. Anthony's Hospital: fire started in a laundry chute in 125 bed hospital, 77 people died

Apr 07, 1882 - Cincinnati - OH - 3rd Alarm - Box 41 - St Xavier Church Fire, complete loss $200,000

Apr 10, 1845 - Pittsburgh - PA - Great Fire - 1/4 of city destroyed - 975 buildings, mostly residential

Apr 10, 1912 - Atlantic Ocean - NS - Titanic Sinks

Apr 10, 1917 - Eddystone - PA - Munitions plant explosion claims 130 lives

Apr 10, 1946 - Butte - MT - Park and Idaho Streets - Butte High School destroyed by fire

Apr 11, 1768 - Montreal - QC - Conflagration wipes out 90 houses, 2 churches, 1 school

Apr 11, 1867 - Cincinnati - OH - General Alarm - Box 19 - Foote + Nash Co, Pearl + Kilgour St $210,000 loss

Apr 11, 1877 - St. Louis - MO - 4th, 5th, Walnut and Elm Streets - Southern Hotel - Large 6th story luxury hotel with 300 guests - Many trapped on upper floors - Firefighter O'Toole was credited with saving a dozen from certain death - SEE July 6, 1880 for the tragic death of O'Toole

Apr 11, 1880 - Deerfield - MI - Post Office and three other buildings destroyed by fire - $7000 loss

Apr 11, 1885 - Schenectady - NY - College Hills - Multiple barns destroyed by fire

Apr 12, 1927 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 942 - 5th Ave at East 59 Street -Sherry-Netherland Hotel - the Netherland Tower - All floors above the 23rd involved in fire

Apr 13, 1918 - Oklahoma City - OK - State Hospital fire - 38 people died

Apr 14, 1903 - Rome - NY - Washington Street Opera House (Oswego Theater) burns - Fire started on third floor of five story block - $150,000 loss

Apr 15, 1882 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 316 - Cincinnati Cooperage Co fire $106,000 loss

Apr 15, 1899c. - Dawson - Yukon Territory Canada - During a strike by firemen--when the temperature was 45 degrees below zero - Fire in the Bodega Hotel on Front Street and spread along the waterfront - Entire business district was destroyed and damage was estimated at $1 million

Apr 16, 1878 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 41 - Nurre Picture Frame factory

Apr 16, 1947 - Texas City - TX - Fire Fatal - Fire on two freighters carrying 51,000 sacks of ammonium nitrate with explosions - Most of town destroyed - 517 killed including all of the Volunteer Fire Department members - 5,000 pound anchor is found 1.5 miles away from blast - Blast registers on seismograph in Colorado

Apr 18, 1906 - San Francisco - CA - Earthquake - Earthquake and conflagration - 460 killed - 28,000 buildings destroyed - $350,000,000 property loss

Apr 18, 1968 - Evans - NY - Rumsey Estate mansion fire - Building became well involved and the slate tile begins to loosen and slide off the roof like guillotines

Apr 19, 1966 - Fargo - ND - Fire destroyed Fargo's Central High School

Apr 20, 1935 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 482 - Furman Street at East River - Rubber Storage Warehouse

Apr 21, 1930 - Columbus - OH - Fatal Fire - 322 die in Ohio Penitentiary -

Apr 22, 1956 - Rome - NY - 511 Lewis St.- Family of seven died.

Apr 23, 1884 - Schenectady - NY - Union Street - Train wreck - Train engine and six freight cars crash into canal

Apr 23, 1946 - Philadelphia - PA - 37 Kater Street - Tenement fire where 7 persons died

Apr 23, 1962 - New York (Staten Island) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 4552 plus Manhattan 2nd Alarm and Staten Island 2nd Alarm and 4th Alarm - Staten Island Conflagration in Tottenville - Mutual Aid Jersey City

Apr 26, 1900 - Hull and Ottawa - ON - Canada - What started as a roof fire at a dwelling grew out of control and consumed most of downtown Hull - Embers ignited lumber yards and the alarm was sounded in Ottawa. At 3 p.m., buglers were sent through the streets to call out the militia. Explosions filled the air, as dynamite and industrial chemicals blew up. A power plant was burned. By the time the fire burned itself out, Ottawa's industrial heart was gone. The fire left more than 14,000 people homeless (8,000 in Ottawa and 6,000 in Hull). Seven people were killed

Apr 26, 1908 - Landslide into Lièvre R., Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette - Quebec Canada - 33 killed -

Apr 26, 1967 - Elkins - WV - The old Elkins National Bank Building, occupied by the Lamplight Restaurant, Tyre's Shoe Store and Polly O'Kernick's Fidelity Finance Co. was lost along with Fountain Cut Rate store next door, apartments and a large section of the G. C. Murphy Co. building. A woman who lived in an apartment over Fountain Cut Rate perished in the fire.

Apr 27, 1865 - Memphis - TN - Mississippi River - SS Sultana boiler explodes, burns, and sinks killing over 1500, mostly Union Soldiers that were released prisoners of war

Apr 27, 1887 - Schenectady - NY - Centre Street - Weatherwax Foundry destroyed by fire

Apr 28, 1869 - Helena - MT - Four years after the town was founded and still officially name Last Chance Gulch, a fire broke out in a Chinese gambling house, and raged through the lumber shacks, log cabins and the few stone buildings then in town - The Helena theater was destroyed and a San Francisco theatrical company lost its entire wardrobe

Apr 28, 1947 - xx - xx - Trans Canada Air Lines Lockheed Loadstar Crashes, near Vancouver - 15 killed -

Apr 29, 1894 - Winchester - VA - Main Street opposite Taylor Hotel - Fire burned out the heart of the best business block in town - $100,000 loss, considered arson

Apr 29, 1903 - Slide - Turtle Mountain - Alberta Canada - 70 killed -

Apr 30, 1858 - Rome - NY - Old Red Brewery on Mill Pond, adjacent house and barn attached lost to fire

Apr 30 Data loss E - Main Street - Frank Broggi's store, Kempton's building and stable, Smith's photograph gallery, and Haigh's Restaurant all destroyed by fire

May 01, 1885 - Dallas - TX - Evans dry goods store and Barber's music store destroyed by fire

May 01, 1900 - Scofield - UT - Blasting powder explosion in coal mine kills 200

May 02, 1920 - New York (Staten Island) 3rd Alarm plus Manhattan 3rd Alarm - National Lead Plant at Port Richmond

May 02, 2001 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 1207 - address??

May 03, 1886 - Fairview - PA - Fire that started in McCreary's livery stable nearly wipes out entire hamlet just outside of Erie, including a general store, post office, factory, several dwellings and barns

May 03, 1901 - Jacksonville - FL - 1700 buildings destroyed by fire

May 03, 2001 - Johnville - New Brunswick - Monquart Covered Bridge destroyed by fire

May 04, 1851 - San Francisco - CA - Much of city destroyed by fire - From Dec 1849 through June 1851, six huge arson fires struck the city

May 04, 1851- St. Louis - Mo - More than three-quarters of the city was burned - 2500 buildings - $2,200,000 loss

May 05, 1895 - Buffalo - NY - Strauss Tannery ext. to Post Office, Coal Yard, 2 Houses, Barns, $250,000

May 05, 1932 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 561 Cunard Pier 54 North RIV? at West 15th Street

May 06, 1957 - Evans - NY - Evans School # 6 on Black Rd. at South Creek Rd. is destroyed by the Lakeshore Arsonist

May 07, 1885 - Hampton - NY - Ocean House (Hotel) destroyed by fire

May 08, 1878 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 69 - Elm Street and Canal Street - Henshaw furniture factory destroyed

May 08, 1904 - Utica - MI - Half of Utica was burned

May 09, 1992 - Plymouth - Nova Scotia - Westray Mine, explosion & fire, 26 dead

May 10, 1887 - Nashville - TN - Fire at the Morgan and Hamilton's paper bag and box factory spread to the Merchants Exchange and other prominent buildings - Entire block greatly damaged

May 10, 1887 - Peoria - IL - Nicol, Burr & Co's. - Fire in the paint shop spread to machinery and foundry shops and further spread to Shelby, Starr & Co. extensive works occupying nearly a block of 3 story brick buildings

May 11, 1886 - Kansas City - MO - Tornado - Missouri River Railroad Bridge destroyed - Top of Jackson County Courthouse blown off - 15 children killed in Lathrop School

May 11, 1976 - Houston - TX - Tank truck with a load of anhydrous ammonia crashed through a guardrail on a highway interchange and dumped its load onto highway. Many motorists were trapped in a cloud of ammonia vapors - Seven people died, 200 were injured, 57 of which were admitted to 12 hospitals

May 12, 1874 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 46 - 14th Street + Plum Street - J.H. Sandling Planing Mill fire $51,000 loss

May 13, 1949 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 2nd Alarm - Box 308 - Holland Tunnel Line of Duty Death

May 13, 1985 - Philadelphia - PA - 60 buildings valued at $50,000,00 destroyed by fire as result of police action - 6 perished and 300 left homeless

May 14, 1895 - Hickox - PA - Boiler explosion in saw mill, bldg wrecked, 7 dead

May 15, 1781c. - Rome - NY -. Fort Stanwix - A quick spreading fire destroys all buildings within the fort walls

May 15, 1895 - Coney Island - NY - Feyman's Dance Hall, ext. to 3 hotels, many smaller exposures

May 15, 1895 - Troy - NY - Schagticoke Powder Mill, four mills dest., 2 dead

May 15, 1929 - Cleveland - OH - Cleveland Clinic Fire - Fire involving highly flammable X-Ray films give off poisonous gases killing 125

May 15, 1956 - xx - xx - CF100 Crashes, into Convent near Ottawa - 15 killed -

May 16, 1895 - London - UK. - Bermondsey, 2 acres of industrial bldgs, uncluding 5 leather warehouses, $600,000

May 16, 1938 - Atlanta - GA - Terminal Hotel fire 35 people died

May 17, 1849 - St. Louis - MO - Over 400 buildings and 26 river boats destroyed by fire - 20 victims perish (some reports state only 3 died) - Fire began on the "White Cloud" steamship

May 17, 1923 - Beulah - SC - Cleveland School: during a school play with more than 300 people in the audience a lamp fell down and started a fire; 77 people died, 47 of them were under the age of 18

May 17, 2000 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 1288 Commercial Building 20th Street at 4th Avenue

May 18, 1980 - Mt. Saint Helens - WA - Mountain erupts killing 40

May 18, 1993 - New York (Queens) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 7250 Building fire - 48th Ave at 44th Street

May 19, 1934 - Chicago - IL - Chicago stockyard fires - $10,000,000 loss

May 20, 1877 - Patterson - NJ - St. Charles Hotel completely destroyed by fire

May 21, 1866 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 14th St. & Irving Pl. - Academy of Music Theatre, ext. to piano factory, medical college, etc. $1.5 million

May 21, 1917 - Atlanta - GA - Separate fires destroy over 1900 buildings

May 21, 1997 - Cincinnati - OH - 5 Alarms - Cincinnati Zoo Aquarium, 1 FF injured, $3 Million loss

May 22, 1899 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - Greenpoint - 119 Freemen Street - Fire started at Kells Brothers - 19 Buildings (factories and tenements) destroyed - 50 families homeless - 22 fire companies working - $200,000 damage

May 22, 1910 - Schenectady - NY - Barnum & Bailey Circus Big Top Tent caught fire during show - Tent destroyed, several injured during panic

May 22, 1941 - Evans - NY - The original St. Vincent's Church destroyed by fire

May 25, 1950 - Chicago - IL - Streetcar collides with gasoline tanker _ Known as the Green Hornet Accident

May 25, 1979 - Chicago - IL - American Airlines DC-10 - Lost engine immediately after take-off from O'Hare Airport and crashed onto the ground - All 271 aboard die

May 25, 2001 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 159 Art School 111 Franklyn Street at Church Street

May 27, 1896 - St Louis - MO - Tornado kills over 300

May 27, 1977 - Southgate - KY - Fire FATAL - Beverly Hills Dinner Club - 165 die

May 28, 1845 - Quebec City - Quebec Canada - 1650 houses were burned - One-third of the population made homeless - $600,000 loss

May 28, 1914 - xx - xx - Empress Of Ireland Sinking - 1024 killed -

May 31, 1889 - Johnstown - PA - 2200 victims die in massive flood when earthen dam well upstream bursts - First major mobilization of American Red Cross to deliver disaster relief

Jun 02, 1983 - Cincinnati - OH - AIR CANADA in flight fire that landed in Cincinnati with 23 dead

Jun 05, 1879 - Cincinnati - OH - General Alarm - Box 29 - Pearl Street at Elm Street - Post Co Factory Destroyed - Following day building collapsed killing 6 workers cleaning up from the fire

Jun 05, 1946 - Chicago - IL - LaSalle Hotel fire claims 61 lives

Jun 06, 1889 - Seattle - WA - 31 city blocks destroyed by fire - 2 killed - $15,000,000 damage

Jun 06, 1994 - Harrisburg - PA - Multiple Alarm - Former Penn. Dept of Transportation Bldg - 12 Story - $150 million loss - 42 pieces responded

Jun 07, 1850 - Montreal - QC - Fire destroyed the finest part of the city - 200 houses were burned.

Jun 07, 1871 - Istanbul - Turkey - Much of city destroyed by fire - One of several disastrous fires in Istanbul throughout history

Jun 07, 1893 - Fargo - North Dakota - Worst fire in the history of Fargo - Downtown city hall, the business district and the homes of most of Fargo's 6,000 citizens destroyed . Fire began at the rear of the Little Gem Restaurant and Herzman's Dry Goods Store at 512 Front Street - Over 160 acres covering 31 blocks of businesses and residences were destroyed - This included 140 residences and 219 businesses

Jun 08, 1977 - Devils Lake - ND - Fire consumed the Colonial Hotel

Jun 09, 1946 - Dubuque - IA - Canfield Hotel fire - 19 people died

Jun 10, 2000 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 3580 Commercial Building Ocean Avenue at Brighton Beach Ave.

Jun 11, 1184BC - Ancient Troy burned by Greeks - Europe

Jun 11, 1805 - Detroit - MI - City leveled by fire

Jun 14, 1910 - Montreal - Quebec Canada - Herald Building Collapses - 32 killed -

Jun 15, 1904 - New York - NY - General Slocum Ship fire - 1000 deaths

Jun 15, 1911 - Avalon - NC - Mill destroyed by huge blaze - The mill was never rebuilt, and the entire town was literally moved away, including about 60 houses

Jun 15, 1922 - New York (Queens) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 4962 + Brooklyn 3 Alarm Arverne (Rockaways) Conflagration

Jun 16, 1966 - New York (Staten Island) - NY - 936 Kill Van Kull Ship Collision

Jun 17, 1895 - New York City - NY - 3rd Av., St. Jacob's Theatre gutted, $100,000

Jun 17, 2001 - New York (Queens) - NY - 5th Alarm - Fathers Day Fire Hardware Store Astoria, Queens Line of Duty Death

Jun 19, 1914 - Hillcrest - Alberta Canada - Mine Explosion - 189 killed -

Jun 20, 1881 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 23 General Alarm - 5th Street at Eggleston Street - Miami Soap Works destroyed 2 FF injured

Jun 20, 1912 - Regina - Saskatchewan Canada - Tornado - 28 killed - 28 killed - more than 400 of the finest buildings in the city were destroyed

Jun 20, 1919 - San Juan - PR - Mayaguez Theater fire - ~150 people died

Jun 21, 1877.- St. John - New Brunswick Canada - . Great fire burned over was 200 acres. 37 streets and squares totally or in part destroyed; 10 m. of streets; 1650 dwellings. 18 lives lost. Total loss, 2,500,000. Two-fifths of the city burned.

Jun 21, 1895 - Great Bend - PA - Church Street and Tannery Street - Dwelling burned - Twenty men, 4 torch boys answered roll

Jun 21, 1946 - Dallas- TX - Baker Hotel fire - 10 people died

Jun 22, 1947 - Mormon Island - CA- SS Markey, loaded with more than three million gallons of butane and other petroleum product exploded

Jun 22, 1969 - Cleveland - OH - Cuyahoga River catches fire downstream from Cleveland

Jun 25, 1946 - New York (Staten Island) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 13 plus Brooklyn 4 Alarm St. George Ferry Terminal

Jun 26, 1902 - Mercur - UT - Town destroyed by fire

Jun 27, 1895 - San Francisco - CA - 5th St. & Harrison Av., SF Box Factory, ext. behind to houses, then Southern Pacific RR barns, $1.5 million

Jun 28, 1845 - Quebec City - Quebec Canada - Fire consumed 1300 dwellings.- 6000 persons were made homeless - 30 streets destroyed. - $60,000 loss

Jun 30, 1900 - Hoboken - NJ - Fire along riverfront district and the piers of the North German Steamship line claims between 326 and 400 lives

Jun 30, 1952 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 46 - Storage Warehouse Greenpoint

Jul 02, 2003 - Bonita Springs - FL - A tractor-trailer loaded with fireworks exploded as workers were unloading the materials; 5 people died.

Jul 04, 1866 - Rome - NY - Hot air balloon, made of oil soaked canvas struck the steeple of the First Methodist Church and burst into flames - One part of the flaming balloon fell onto the Court House setting it on fire - The rest of the burning balloon fell among two dwellings, destroying both

Jul 04, 1902 - Newbury VT - Wells River - Rear of Baldwin Library - Reservoir collapse

Jul 04, 1995 - Evans - NY - General Alarm - Flexovit USA - Largest fire ever in Evans - Twenty-eight fire companies fought the fire - Manufacturing operation

Jul 04, 2003 - Iqaluit - Nunavut Territory Canada - Joamie School destroyed by fire - Fire started in gymnasium section and consumed the whole school

Jul 04, 2003 - Kilgore - TX - Explosion at a Lamb Entertainment's fireworks warehouse; 3 people died

Jul 05, 1853 - Oswego - NY - Area of First Street through Fourth Street and Bridge Street - 15 blocks covering 45 acres consumed by fire - All mills and elevator on east side destroyed by fire - 2000 people homeless - Fitzhugh flour mill, Doolittle mill, Ames Grain Elevator, Howlet Gardner provision store, Ames plaster mill, several other grain and flour mills - Tallcott and Canfield Foundry damaged causing loss of 70 jobs - Fire cause though to be arson - Total loss estimated at $700,000

Jul 06, 1853 - Oswego - NY - Large Kinyon, Collins hardware establishment in West Oswego - Upper floors containing Odd Fellows Hall and laws offices gutted in the fire - Hardware store was able to save most of their goods - Separate fires in the Oswego Hotel, United States Hotel, and City Hall were also spotted, the work of an incendiary

Jul 06, 1880 - St. Louis - MO - Firefighter Phelim O'Toole, hero of the Southern Hotel fire on April 11, 1877, is killed in a freak line of duty accident - O'Toole responded to a small fire in a vacant house when his fire extinguisher exploded, tearing into his chest killing him

Jul 06, 1988 - North Sea - Scotland - Oil Rig Piper Alpha, explosions and fire kill 167 and destroy oil drilling platform

Jul 07, 1881 - Cincinnati - OH - General Alarm - Box 23 - Smith Street and Augusta Street - 29 buildings damaged or destroyed 1881

Jul 08, 1895 - Manchester - NY - Business area destroyed, $75,000 loss

Jul 08, 1895 - Minneapolis - MN - 240 1st Av. S., McDonald Crockery, wall collapse kills 6 firefighters, injures 4, $100,000 loss

Jul 08, 1937 - Evans - NY - The North Evans Railroad Station is destroyed by fire

Jul 09, 1850 - Philadelphia - PA - 400 buildings burned - 30 lives lost

Jul 09, 1852 - Montreal - Quebec Canada - 1852. - Fire destroys 1200 houses over a 4 square mile area $1,000,000 loss

Jul 09, 1876 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - Castle garden fire

Jul 10, 1895 - Detroit - MI - CF Case Livery Stables, 5 dead, 100 horses killed, $175,000

Jul 11, 1997 - Placer County - CA - Multiple Alarm Fire - Placer Consolidated Fire District - 90,000 square foot mill complex - A total of 7 overhead, 21 engines, 1 light tower, and 1 air attack were on the incident. - Fuel load included 3,000,000 board feet seasoned hardwood and 300 tons sawdust

Jul 12, 1895 - Bensie County - MI - Forest fires wipe out villages of Wallin and Cleary, 20 injured, damage at 2 lumber mills hits $2 million

Jul 12, 1896 - Brooklyn - NY - Catholic Church of the Visitation destroyed by fire - $150,000 loss

Jul 12, 1973 - St. Louis - MO - Fire in a records storage house destroyed several hundred thousands military personnel records

Jul 13, 1865 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - Barnum's Museum

Jul 13, 1932 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 3598 +Manhattan 5 Alarm Coney Island

Jul 13, 1977 - New York City - NY - 2nd Great New York City power blackout

Jul 14, 1895 - Lewiston - NY - Steamer Cibola burns at dock, American Hotel, wharf, warehouses destroyed, 1 dead, $300,000

Jul 14, 1956 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 447 Wanamakers Broadway at E 9 Street

Jul 15, 1863 - New York City - NY - 3 days of rioting - Draft Riots kills (11, tortures and maims thousands of innocent civilians - Hundreds of buildings burned by rioters - Federal troops occupy city on fourth day

Jul 15, 1875 - Steam Mill Point NY - Lake Champlain - Steamer Champlain wrecked

Jul 16, 1926 - Helena - MT - Fire destroyed a number of buildings on one side of the main street business section for a loss of a million and a half dollars

Jul 16, 1955 - Denver - CO - Amusement Park Fire - Elitch Gardens - Old Mill Boat ride - A ride through a dark tunnel exhibiting lighted scenes of fairytale characters - 6 people died due to smoke inhalation

. Jul 16, 1967 - Berrydale - FL - Fire Fatal - 37 die in prison camp fire

Jul 16, 1990 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 715 - Empire State Building

Jul 17, 1944 - port Chicago - CA - Ammunition supply ship explodes killing 320

Jul 17, 1981 - Kansas City - MO - Hyatt Regency Hotel - Two 120 foot long elevated walkways collapse, sending those strolling along with 65 tons of debris onto hundreds of people below - 114 killed, hundreds injured

Jul 17, 1996 - Moriches Bay Long Island - NY - Plane Crash - TWA, Flight 800 - 229 Souls on board

Jul 17, 1996 - Newark - NJ - 3rd Alarm - Bx2335 McCarter Hwy. & Kinney Street - 3-Story Brick Vacant Commercial Bldg, 1 Block Long

Jul 18, 1977 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 767 plus Manhattan 3rd Alarm Bushwick Conflagration

Jul 19, 1845 - New York - NY - Fire in a factory and subsequent explosions; 30 people died and hundreds were injured.

Jul 19, 1845 - New York City - NY - New St., Sperm Oil Store, extends to 300 bldgs, 4 firefighters, 26 civilians dead, $10 million loss

Jul 19, 1922 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 539 +Brooklyn 2 Alarm Storage Warehouse Jane St. Line of Duty Death

Jul 20, 1875 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 32 - The Bloch Fire James McCormick, George Crusoe, both of the Four's, Richard Halcomb, Volunteer, killed 12 FF injured

Jul 21, 1919 - Chicago - IL - Grant Park - Dirigible Winged Foot Express crashes after it catches fire at 1200 feet - 3 onboard perish, 10 employees of Illinois Trust and Savings Bank also die when the burning mass fell through the skylight of the bank - Pilot and Chief Mechanic parachuted to safety

Jul 21, 1969 - Evans - NY - Depot Street - Kelm's historic landmark blacksmith shop destroyed by a suspicious fire

Jul 23, 1867 - Cincinnati - OH - General Alarm - Box 63 - Crane and Breed Co $70,000 loss

Jul 23, 1872 - Greensboro - NC - Several buildings, including the finest court house in the state, the Caldwell Bank, the Southern Hotel, Menden Hall, Staples land office, and Porter's Drug store destroyed by fire - Court-house was $30,000 loss

Jul 23, 1971 - New Orleans - LA - Fire broke out in a room on the 12th. floor of the 17-story building; 6 people died in an elevator

Jul 24, 1872 - xx - xx - Fire in Ralph Waldo Emerson's Home

Jul 24, 1915 - Chicago - IL - between LaSalle Street and Clark Street - Passenger Ship Eastland capsizes while docked in downtown Chicago pier killing 840 of the over 2500 passengers - Victims were employees of Western Electric going on an annual company picnic - The ship was notorious for being top heavy - A series of modifications made the ship even more so unstable - The last of the modifications, additional lifeboats, and a full capacity of passengers appear to have been the last straw

Jul 24, 1948 - Cap des Rosiers, Gaspé - Quebec Canada - Rimouski Air DC3 Crashes in Fog - 26 killed -

Jul 26, 1895 - Bochum, Westphalia - Germany - Prinz von Pressen Mine, explosion, 32 dead, 125 injured

Jul 27, 1947 - Minot - ND - Explosion at Westland Oil Co. and fire killed three people and destroyed four city blocks - People were knocked to the ground 2 blocks away

Jul 28, 1853 - Sandy Hook - NJ - Rockaway - Hotel fire

Jul 28, 1945 - New York - NY - Plane Crash - B-25 crashes into - Empire State Bldg killing 13

Jul 28, 1945 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 4th Alarm - Box 681 Empire State Building Plane Crash

Jul 28, 1978 - Kansas City - MO - Coates House Hotel, 16 people died

Jul 29, 1866 - Rome - NY -. Fire broke out at Willett Stables Fire and spread leveling a whole block, including several stores and the Post Office - Aid from Utica and Syracuse - 1 firefighter was crushed under a falling wall and perished

Jul 30, 1916 - Jersey City - NJ - Fire and explosion at the Black Tom pier - National Storage Plant - 29 railroad cars of explosives in route to war effort exploded - The numbers of cars involved was later reported to be 87 - Blast felt 90 miles away - Thousands of windows in Manhattan were shattered - 33 firemen reported killed, later reports indicated 8 dead - $30,000,000 damaged - Glass damage alone was $1,000,000 - Statue of Liberty hit by flying debris - It was rumored that 3 foreign agents were arrested for the blasts - Several railroad executive charged with manslaughter for illegal handing of ammunition - Ruins smoldered for over a month - Caused by small fire that workers tried to bring under control themselves but fire got out of control

Aug 01, 1908 - Kootenay Valley Fire Elk River - British Columbia Canada - Fernie & Michel Destroyed - 70-100 killed -

Aug 01, 1932 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 2nd Alarm - Ritz Towers Hotel Park Ave at E 57 St. Line of Duty Death

Aug 01, 1969 - Angola - NY - Ehmke's Lumber yard fire

Aug 02, 1978 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 4th Alarm - Ocean Ave and Avenue Y - Sheepshead Bay - Waldbaums Supermarket under extensive renovation - Six Line of Duty Deaths

Aug 03, 1877 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 41 - 8th and Broadway - Pellstring fire - 3 Firefighters injured, 6 civilians killed

Aug 04, 1927 - Nova Scotia - Canada - August Gale Off Nova Scotia coast - 100 killed - Off Sable Island

Aug 04, 1927 - Nova Scotia - Canada - August Gale Off coast - 100 killed - Off Sable Island

Aug 04, 1942 - Cleveland - OH - Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey tent fire killed numerous large animals including elephants, lions and camels

Aug 04, 1956 - New York City - NY - St. Bartholomew's, St. Patrick's, St. Thomas Churches set on fire - Suspect arrested at St. Columbia's Church carrying newspapers, rags, a shredded mop and matches

Aug 05, 1949 - Mann Gulch - MT - 12 Firefighters who parachuted in and a forest ranger are overtaken by a wall of fire and perish

Aug 05, 1970 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 3rd Alarm - Box -23 1 NY Plaza

Aug 07, 2000 - New York (Bronx) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 3552 Five Story Brick Mosholu Pkwy. at Steuben Ave.

Aug 09, 1867 - Benicia - CA - Forty buildings in business district wiped out by fire

Aug 09, 1945 - Grand Forks - ND - (50 miles to the west) Train accident - Great Northern's Empire Builder train collided with a stalled observation car killing 34

Aug 10, 1887 - Muskegon - MI - Mill fire in city cause $120,000 damage and claims 5,000,000 feet of lumber

Aug 10, 1887 - Saint Louis - MO - Fire on North Second Street at Bishop's and Speare's peanut warehouse claims the lives of three firefighters - While the fire in the 5 story building was long under control, the building collapsed - A spectator was also killed - It was reported in the newspapers that the victims were playing on the roasted peanuts

Aug 10, 1887 - South Englewood - IL - Fire in Webber Works wagon factory paint shop spread to several buildings in the complex and extended to consume twenty home causing $1,500,000 damage - Several residents died in the fire

Aug 10, 1887 - Wilmington - DE - Barley Brothers steam candy works destroyed by fire causing $30,000 loss

Aug 11, 1957 - Issoudun - Quebec Canada - Maritime Central Airways DC4 Crashes - (40 km SW of Quebec City) 79 killed

Aug 12, 1867 - Benica - CA - Business section of town including 40 buildings destroyed by fire

Aug 12, 1867 - Jersey City - NJ - An oakum factory and other buildings destroyed by fire - $35,000 loss

Aug 12, 1944 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 3564 + Brooklyn 5 Alarm - Coney Island Luna Park

Aug 12, 1953 - Livonia - MI - General Motors Hydra-Matic transmission plant, deemed "fireproof" - Huge plant covering 34 acres destroyed by fire - Caused by vat of oil catching fire

Aug 12, 1985, the world's worst single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 on a domestic flight crashed into a mountain, killing 520 people. Aug 13, 1888 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - Convent Of the Sacred Heart

Aug 15, 1872c. - Helena - MT - Fire started at the rear of a Main street hotel near Broadway and raged eastward for six blocks and part of another

Aug 15, 1885 - Schenectady - NY - Dock Street - Schermerhorn & Sons hay barn and straw barn burn

Aug 15, 1911 - Schenectady - NY - Union Hall Block suffers heavy damage by fire

Aug 15, 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska Aug 17, 1848 - Albany - NY - Fire destroys over 500 buildings

Aug 18, 1959 - Kansas City - MO - Southwest Boulevard: - Conoco gasoline station - Oil tank caught fire and exploded - Five firefighters and a worker died

Aug 20, 1889c. - De Smet - SD - Homestead of Almazo and Laura Ingalls Wilder destroyed by fire (Laura was the author of a serious of well known books, including Little House on the Prairie)

Aug 22, 1882 - St. Louis - MO - Leggett and Dousman's Tobacco Company - Fatal fire - Foreman jumped out third story window to escape flames and was killed - Firefighter responding to call, hose truck driver George Ferman, was killed when his truck was upset

Aug 22, 1928 - town - USA - Mitchell residence - Garage and large attached barn destroyed by fire - Mr. Mitchell died of burns from am explosion of a gas torch

Aug 24, 1814 - Washington - DC - British troops invade and burn White House and Capitol

Aug 24, 1882 - Cincinnati - OH - 3rd Alarm - Box 182 - Henry E Carrol, Engineer, killed while responding to 3rd alarm Queen City Planing Mill fire $37,000 loss

Aug 25, 1814 - Washington - DC - Tornado - During British invasion of Washington during War of 1812. - 30 British soldiers killed. (More than had died by the hands of Americans defending city.)

Aug 25, 1935 - xx - xx - Storm Destroys Villages in NF, - 50 killed -

Aug 29, 1907 - Rome - NY - Wiggins, Pritchard, and Dickson Blocks, Farmers Hotel burn

Aug 31, 1886 - Charleston - SC - Schenectady - NY - Severe earthquake - 100 people killed in Charleston - Felt in Boston and New Orleans

Sep 01, 1894 - Hinckley - MN - Forest fire kills 418

Sep 01, 1898 - (South) Londonderry - VT - House fire with exposure to barn - Husband and wife died with livestock they tried to save from burning barn

Sep 01, 1912 - Butte - MT - Thomas Block fire on West Park

Sep 02, 1666 - London England - UK - Historic Fire - The fire broke out in mostly abandoned London (due to Black Plague). The fire ended the Plague in London because most of the rat population was killed - 89 Churches, 13,000 house destroyed

Sep 02, 1914 - Schenectady - NY - Wing Avenue Mount Pleasant section - 6 children die by sand bank caving in

Sep 03, 1991 - Hamlet - NC - Imperial Food Products chicken-processing plant: 25 worker died in a fire - Building was without fire alarms or sprinkler systems - Many exit doors were locked to prevent employees from stealing

Sep 04, 1935 - Tampa - FL - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 - 400 killed

Sep 04, 1982 - Los Angeles - CA - Apartment House fire, 24 people died

Sep 04, 1998 - New York - NY - 4th Alarm - 124th Street in Harlem - 5 Story Brick building with heavy fire on three floors - Top three floors of building collapsed burying an engine

Sep 05, 1881 - Lower Peninsula - MI - Fatal FIRE - Cleared Forest Land fire causing 380 deaths - (St. Clair, Lapeer, Huron, Tuscola and Sanilac Counties)

Sep 05, 1944 - East Coast States - US - An earthquake was reported at 12:34:53 that was felt in eastern Canada, south to Norfolk Virginia and as far inland as Wisconsin - Epicenter 275 northwest of New York City (Rochester NY area)

Sep 06, 1956 - Evans - NY - General Alarm - Sturgeon Point Road near Route 20 - Mroz Farm

Sep 07, 1943 - Houston - TX - Gulf Hotel fire , 55 people died

Sep 07, 1980 - Albany - NY - Mobile oil Company on west bank of Hudson River - 1,500,000 gallons tanks holding gasoline exploded and erupted into fire

Sep 08, 1846 - off coast - NC - Lost and drowned off the Coast Survey Brig WASHINGTON in a hurricane while conducting Gulf Stream studies, 11 officers and crew members : George M. Bache, Lieutenant Commanding; James Dorsey, quartermaster; Benjamin Dolloff, quartermaster; John Fishbourne, quartermaster; Henry Schroeder, sailmaker's mate; Francis Butler, seaman; Lewis Maynard, seaman; Thomas Stamford, seaman; William Wright, seaman; Peter Hanson, ordinary seaman; Edward Grennin, ordinary seaman. Sep 08, 1898 - Hoosic Falls - NY - Power Station destroyed by cyclone

Sep 08, 1900 - Galveston - TX - Hurricane and Flood - 5,000 to 7,000 lives lost

Sep 08, 1923 - Honda Point - CA - 7 naval destroyers and 23 lives lost as they ran aground in heavy fog

Sep 08, 1954 - Moose Jaw - Saskatchewan Canada - Trans-Canada Airliner Collides with RCAF Trainer, near Moose Jaw - Saskatchewan Canada - 36 killed

Sep 09, 1859 - Halifax - NS - Ordnance Square Fire

Sep 09, 1898 - Williamsport - PA - High Lake - The Grandview Hotel and contents destroyed by fire

Sep 09, 1949 - near Baie-Saint-Paul. - Quebec Canada - Bomb Explodes on Québec Air DC3 65 miles northeast of Quebec City - All 23 killed - Discovered to be an insurance plot by husband of woman on board - He was convicted and executed

Sep 10, 1865 - Rome - NY - 153 Dominick Street - Fire in old storehouse spread to wagon shop and blacksmith shop

Sep 10, 2002 - Prattville - AL - Daniel Pratt Cotton Mill Fire - Buildings were completed in or around 1859. This cotton mill was the largest in the world at that time and employed well over a hundred workers. The mill made Confederate Army uniforms - 3 Alarm fore - Mutual Aid Arial trucks from Montgomery and Millbrook - New owners of the building had planned to restore the building - 5 youths were caught, charged and convicted of arson

Sep 11, 1859 - Cincinnati - OH - 53 Second Street, Boyle Wholesale Liquors - 3 Firefighters injured $150,000 loss

Sep 11, 1940 - Billings - MT - Historic Northern Hotel - 4 story brick built in 1884 - Fire broke out in basement and completely destroyed the structure - The glow could be seen 50 miles away - When rebuilt the following year, the new 10 story hotel was the tallest building in the state

Sep 11, 2001 - New York City (Manhattan) - NY - Two World Trade Center Towers, 110 stories high, destroyed when two jets airliners crash into buildings causing fire and total collapse - Thousands killed

Sep 12, 1966 - Anchorage - AK - Lane Hotel fire - 14 people died

Sep 12, 1977 - Kansas City - MO - Torrential thunderstorm overwhelms Brush Creek causing mammoth flooding in the Plaza district - 24 die - $94,000,000 damaged

Sep 13, 1919 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 516 + Two Man 3 Alarm s

Sep 14, 1867 - Cincinnati - OH - Bow 59 - General Alarm 6th and Baymiller, Liecht and Co, 3 Firefighters injured

Sep 14, 1871 - Saratoga - NY - Two Hotels destroyed by fire - Another hotel damaged by fire

Sep 15, 1812 - Moscow - Russia - Russians burned city to keep Napoleon from taking over

Sep 15, 1946 - Estevan - Saskatchewan - Canada - RCAF Transport Plane (C-47 Dakota) Crashes - 20 killed

Sep 15, 1992 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 119 - Third Cincinnati Coffin Co. - John Renner, Stoker, killed by a falling wall

Sep 15, 1995 - Evans - NY - 7000 Erie Road - Chateau Estates - Fire was through the roof of an eight-family apartment building

Sep. 16, 1881 - Rome - NY - Sep 16, 1881 - Rome - NY - Byrnes Hotel and barn lost to fire - Sparks spread to the Brodock Soap Works was destroyed - Simultaneous fire at freight house near Ridge Street spread to many dwellings destroying all

Sep 16, 1920 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - Wall Street - In a suspected act of domestic terrorism, an explosion kills 40 people

Sep 16, 1995 - Baltimore - MD - Clipper Mill Industrial Park - 3500 Clipper Road - Originally built in 1851, the complex was so large it could fit three football fields inside - It housed artist studios, a rock climbing gym, and furniture refinishers. - Fire started on roof and spread very rapidly - A sixth alarm was dispatched to set up for exposure protection. Several firefighter injured when a large wall collapsed

Sep 17, 1851 - Cincinnati - OH - Dennison House fire - Fire started in and destroyed a stable and spread to the boarding house, destroying its upper two stories

Sep 17, 1879 - Caribou - CO - Over 60 families homeless as their dwellings are destroyed by wildfire

Sep 17, 1879 - New York - NY - Tieman's Paint factory burns (Owned by former mayor Tieman)

Sep 17, 1879 - Terre Haute - IN - 11 stables destroyed and two houses badly damaged by incendiary over past two days - Fires over last 6 weeks have destroyed 80 barns and houses - 2 ten year old boys were arrested - There were believed to be several other criminals involved

Sep 17, 1898 - Salem - ## - Baker's Island - 2 cottages destroyed by fire

Sep 17, 1923 - Berkeley - CA - Over 600 buildings consumed by fire that started as a brush fire

Sep 17, 1934 - Nome - AK - Fire consumes 20 downtown blocks

Sep 17, 1949 - Toronto - ON Canada - "Noronic" Burns, in Toronto Harbour - 118 killed -

Sep 18, 1946 - Gander Lake - Newfoundland - Canada - Belgian Sabena DC4 Crashes SW of Gander Lake - Newfoundland Canada - 27 killed -

Sep 19, 1676 - Jamestown - VA - Jamestown is burned down during Bacon's Rebellion

Sep 19, 1851 - New York - NY - 39th Street near 10th Ave - Wooden shanty destroyed by fire and spread to an adjacent dwelling causing heavy damage

Sep 19, 1851 - Oswego - NY - Large stone building of the Marine Railway heavily involved in flames, adjoining railway machinery building also aflame - Huge Ontario Grain warehouse threatened

Sep 20, 1851 - Utica - NY - Fuller and Downes Company steam planning and saw mill as well as Welch's cooper shed destroyed by fire

Sep 20, 1898 - Toledo - OH - Union Railroad and Transportation Company - 7 story factory building - Dust explosion in grain elevator with resulting fire kills 16 workers and three visitors

Sep 21, 1776 - New York City - NY - Multiple Fires - One quarter of city burned to ground (490 buildings) - British troops occupying city found fire engines and buckets sabotaged.

Sep 21, 1851 - Utica - NY - Spring Street - Davis's cooper shop burned to the ground

Sep 21, 1973 - Houston - TX - 4th Alarm plus several taps - Englewood Rail Yard Fire - Explosion and massive fire that required 200 firefighters and 40 pieces of apparatus - 1 train engineer killed and 75 injured - Several warehouses were leveled during the 31-hour fire - The Southern Pacific rail yard was 4 four mile long and had a majority of rail cars being tank cars, most of which contained hazardous materials - Two jumbo tank cars both loaded with butadiene struck an empty tank car at 20 mph causing a puncture in the tank - Butadiene leaked producing a vapor cloud it found an ignition source - Explosion and massive fire followed - Fifteen ambulances responded - Several nearby metal warehouses leveled - 1,200 evacuated from near the rail yard - At one point fire involved over a hundred rail cars across 20 tracks - 231 rail cars destroyed, 282 rail cars substantially damaged. Total loss $13,000,000

Sep 22, 1851 - Cincinnati - OH - Codington's Chair Factory and thirteen nearby building, including several dwellings, destroyed by fire - Seven other buildings damaged

Sep 22, 1945 - New York - NY - 45 Ann Street - 4 story business building, heavy fire floor 4 - Many business damaged by fire and water

Sep 24, 1961 - Los Angeles - CA - Fatal fire - 821 West Sunset Boulevard - Dorothy Mae Apartment - 24 people die

Sep 24, 1999 - Schenectady - NY - General Alarm - Forster Ave. - Long Factory building - well involved with collapse.

Sep 25, 1894 - Fayetteville - AR - Fire on the East side of the city Square threatened to destroy the entire business section before the volunteer bucket brigade could bring it under control.- The fire originated in the small frame building used as a stable and sort of warehouse in the rear of the mercantile establishment of Baum and Bro. and next to the alley which connects East Mountain with East Center Street. Baum & Bro's. magnificent store building was soon a mass of ruins. When the flames in the Baum building reached their height the timid gale from the south stiffened into a stout breeze and a storm of fire beat against the south wall of E. B. Harrison's hardware store. A steady stream of water was kept pouring from buckets on the roof to the fire below - The wall could not withstand the heat of the approaching fire and crashed to the floor below, carrying death and destruction. It was known that several men were on the roof of the building and some on the inside when the wall fell - 1 man was killed, several injured - Adjacent building crushed by falling fall - Three wood frame structures were then consumed. - Fire burned a total of three hours

Sep 26, 1970 - Laguna - CA - Wildfire burns 175,000 acres and over 380 buildings

Sep 28, 1995 - Sabie, E. Transvaal - South Africa - Bush fire, 10 firefighters killed, 11 seriously burned

Sep 29, 1947 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 572 + BKN 3 Alarm Grace Pier 57 North River at W 16 St.

Oct 01, 1998 - Burke (Burke Hollow) VT - Working Fire - Sugarhouse Rd - Basement fire around wood stove with extension to walls - West Burke Fire Dept and East Burke Fire Brigade - Tankers

Oct 03, 1893 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - Campbell Wallpaper Company

Oct 03, 1933 - Los Angeles - CA - Griffith Park fire - 100's perish including public works employees sent to fight fire with shovels

Oct 04, 1935 - Helena MT - City was hit by a barrage of several hundred earthquakes during the month, five quakes equaling or exceeding 5.5 on the Richter Scale, causing over $4,000,000 in damage. Most buildings were damaged, and many collapsed, including Helena High School - Classes, when school resumed, were held in 21 railroad coaches - The roof of the armory collapsed during one of the quakes - The rear of city hall collapse displacing both police and fire headquarters - 343 aftershocks were recorded over a 10 day period, the strongest being 6.25 on the Richter Scale on Oct 18 - 80 per cent of the 3,500 homes in the city suffered from the quakes - The value of the average home is about $5,000 and the average damage to each is more than $100

Oct 04, 1998 - Kansas City - MO - Flash flooding kills 11 people - In spite of the torrential rain, the Kansas City Chiefs football game goes on

Oct 06, 1881 - Pulaski - NY - Entire business portion of town destroyed by fire - $200,000 loss

Oct 06, 1881 - Montreal - QC - Hochelaga - 24 families left homeless due to fire

Oct 07, 1871 - Chicago - IL - Major fire - West Division - Fire lasting 16 hrs injures 30 of Chicago's 185 FF's - 3 fire engines damaged - Worst fire in city history until next day

Oct 07, 1905 - Chipley - FL - Fatal Fire - 9 die in prison camp fire -

Oct 07, 1983 - Upstate - NY - Earthquake 5.0 Richter Scale noted in Fremont NH

Oct 07, 1985 - Ponce - PR - Mudslide - PR's worst disaster in 20th cent. - 500 killed

Oct 07, 1993 - New York (Bronx) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 2226 - Six Story Brick Bergen Avenue at 149th Street

Oct 08, 1871 - Chicago - IL - Great Fire - Great Chicago Fire - O'Leary's barn 16x20 at DeKoven & Jefferson St - 250 lives lost - 17,500 bldgs - $195,000,000 damage

Oct 09, 1871 - Peshtigo - WI - Great Fire - Fire destroyed town - killing 1,100 people

Oct 10, 1871 - Holland and Manistee - MI - Great Fire - 3,000 families left homeless -

Oct 10, 1938 - Dance Township - Ontario - Canada - Forest Fire Started by Settlers' Brush Fires, - 17 killed -

Oct 12, 1918 - Cloquet - MN - Forest fire kills 559

Oct 12, 1865 - New York - NY - 276 West 17th Street - Seven wood frame dwellings damaged or destroyed by fire - Firefighter rescued a 2 year old child that had been overlooked during the excitement from a burning house

Oct 12, 1999 - Montreal - QC - 5th Alarm - 5995 de l`Authion. Large 6 Story Concrete Occupied Apartment Building (180 Units) - Fire in parking garage generating heavy smoke in building. Multiple alarms for evacuation of building

Oct 14, 1855 - Cincinnati - OH - General Alarm-Hinkle and Guild building burns to ground

Oct 14, 1898 - Dawson - Yukon Territory Canada - Fire started by a dance hall girl who had left a candle burning on a block of wood. Flames consumed two hotels, the post office and most of Front Street. In all, 26 buildings were destroyed - This same girl was responsible for a major fire in Dawson on Nov 25, 1897

Oct 14, 1934 - Blue Island - IL - (Cook County) Vermont Street at Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Crossing - Train vs automobile 6 killed, including 5 family members

Oct 15, 1908c. - Nyack - NY - Lee T. Spangler and his followers await the end of the world, by fire

Oct 15, 1954 - Ontario - Canada - Hurricane Hazel - 83 killed

Oct 16, 1890 - Syracuse - NY - Leland Hotel fire - Building fully involved within an hour - 8 people die in what was called the finest hotel in central New York State - Building was at least 6 stories tall - Firefighters had great difficulty putting ladders in place as the in front of the building was a large network of telegraph and telephone wires strung between poles - One of the woman servants jumped from the fifth floor and landed on the network of then still intact telegraph wires - However, the wires stretched and then recoiled tossing her several feet into in air then she fell to the ground striking her head and dying instantly - A second victim was lowering himself down the outside of the building from the fourth floor when the rope he was using burned through and he fell to his death

Oct 17, 1891 - Halifax - Nova Scotia - Canada - Fire Water Street destroys a dozen shops, offices, warehouses, and ten wharfs.

Oct 17, 1951 - Nanaimo - British Columbia Canada - Queen Charlotte Air Catalina Crashes into Mt. Benson, near Nanaimo, 23 killed -

Oct 17, 1966 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 598 23 St. Collapse Line of Duty Death

Oct 17, 1989 - San Francisco/Oakland - CA - Bay area earthquake

Oct 17, 2003 - Chicago - IL - Fire, caused by a faulty light fixture, broke out in a storage room on the 12th floor of a 35-story Cook County administration building at 69 West Washington - 6 people died and 12 were injured, overcome by smoke

Oct 19, 1887 - Pittsburgh - PA - General Alarm - Albemarle Hotel - Natural Gas explosion near the hotel causes a fire in the hotel with great damage killing five people

Oct 19, 1909 - Schenectady - NY - Crane Street - Saint Adalbert's Parish Building destroyed by fire

Oct 19, 1943 - Saint Donat - Quebec - Canada - RCAF Liberator Bomber (B24) Crash, (airmen traveling on leave) - 24 killed

Oct 19, 1993 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 1554 Several Stores in a two story building 902 Flatbush Avenue at Snyder Avenue

Oct 20, 1869 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 34 - Mercantile Library Fire, 1p.m. Captain Matthew Schwab of Hook and Ladder 1 killed, seven others injured

Oct 20, 1870 - Schenectady - NY - Moderate Earthquake

Oct 20, 1908 - Rome - NY - John Street - Street Car Barns burns

Oct 20, 1944 - Cleveland - OH - 50 blocks burned - Natural gas explosion at storage facility - 125 killed - 300 homes destroyed

Oct 20, 1990 - Oakland - CA - Wildfires destroy over 3000 dwellings and takes over 24 lives - $1,500,000,000 damage

Oct 20, 1991 - Oakland - CA - Major Fire - Brush - 24 deaths, 2,000 homes destroyed

Oct 21, 1698 - Jamestown - VA - Statehouse burns down

Oct 22, 1913 - Dawson - NM - Coal mine explosions takes 260 lives

Oct 23, 1989 - Pasadena - TX - Phillips Petroleum Plastics plant, explosions and fire - 22 killed

Oct 25, 1978 - Evans - NY - Rte 20 near Versailles Road - Cutter's Inn Tavern - Double fatal fire

Oct 26, 1962 - New York (Queens) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 7027 Wall Collapse Maspeth Line of Duty Death

Oct 27, 1895 - Charlottesville - VA - University of Virginia - Great Fire - Rotunda annex, large 3 story brick academic building, burned to ground -

Oct 28, 1921 - xx - British Columbia Canada Landslide, Dam Burst and Flood, Britannia Beach - 37 killed -

Oct 29, 1900 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 86 Tartent Chemical Warehouse Greenwich at Warren

Oct 30, 1874 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 16 - Dumont Brick Foundry fire 109 E Front $64,000 loss

Oct 30, 1941 - St. Thomas - Ontario - Canada - American Airlines DC3 Crashes near St. Thomas - Ontario Canada - 20 killed -

Oct 30, 1972 - Chicago - IL - Illinois Central Gulf Commuter Train Crash

Oct 31, 1984 - Detroit - MI - A record number 810 fires are attended to on Devil's Night

Nov 01, 1903 - New York - NY - Coney Island - 14 blocks destroyed by fire

Nov 01, 1908 - Rome - NY - Rome State School burns

Nov 02, 1918 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - Malbourne Street - Subway accident kills 97

Nov 03, 1863 - Chicago - IL - Rush Street Bridge collapses - Drove of cattle on bridge and their weight and movement caused the bridge to tip, twist, and collapse - Several individuals on bridge at time, however, there was no loss of life

Nov 03, 1895 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Pelham Street and Monroe Street - 6 buildings on fire results in 4 deaths

Nov 04, 1889 - Webster City - IA - Tunnel Mill fire - Workers had been grinding buckwheat all day when a hot box on the mill wheel bearing caused them to shut down - Early in the morning the mill was discovered to be aglow - Mill and a very large stock of grain, flour, and other goods were completely destroyed

Nov 05, 1895 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - Broadway at Crosby Street - 11 buildings destroyed by fire - 19 firefighters suffer injuries - Conflicting date of Nov 12, 1895

Nov 06, 1874 - Cincinnati - OH - General Alarm - Box 126 - Poplar west of Central Werk and Co. 3 Firefighters injured

Nov 06, 1961 - Los Angeles - CA - Brush Fire, Los Angeles, Santa Monica Mountains: exclusive areas of Bel-Air, Brentwood and Malibu, nearly 500 homes and mansions were destroyed Nov 06, 1961 - Los Angeles - CA - Destructive brush fire - Santa Monica Mountains - Exclusive areas of Bel-Air, Brentwood and Malibu - 475 homes and mansions destroyed

Nov 07, 1959 - Houston - TX - Leaking gasoline during loading operations was ignited by a passing tug catching the fueling barge on fire, which exploded and sprayed the SS Amoco Virginia tanker with gasoline - Two cargo tankers on the tanker then exploded - Eight of the crew died , and a Houston firefighter - Fire burned for 18 hours

Nov 08, 1864 - New York City - NY - Buildings set afire by rebels loyal to the Confederate States

Nov 09, 1917 - Philadelphia - PA - "The Clinton" - Clinton and South 10th Streets - Fatal fire, one killed at scene 1 died of injuries next day

Nov 09, 1965 - Eastern North America - NA - Major power blackout in Northeast USA and eastern Canada - As I recall, power in Nashua was off only for seconds, due to New Hampshire's own power generating capabilities and ability to isolate itself from the power grid

Nov 09, 1995 - Baltimore - MD - 12th Alarm - Hollins and Calverton - Fire in 3 story brick vacant warehouse, started by homeless trying to keep warm - Fire spread to three other large warehouse buildings, A 10-story and 6 story building including a block long complex occupied by 50 small businesses

Nov 10, 1979 - Mississauga - Ontario - evacuated due to train derailment and chemical HazMat

Nov 11, 1917 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Block long warehouse - Sabotage suspected for cause (During World War I)

Nov 11, 1969 - Fayetteville - AR - Hill Hall at the University of Arkansas severely damaged by fire

Nov 13, 1881 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 13, 64 Walnut St. 3 buildings destroyed, 1 Firefighters injured

Nov 13, 1909 - Cherry - IL - Coal mine explosion kills 250

Nov 14, 1924 - Jersey City - NJ - Richardson Chemical Company - Fire in 11 story saltpetre plant spread to the old American Sugar Refining Plant - Several smaller factories also destroyed by fire - Multiple million dollar loss - 15 seriously injured and 900 left homeless

Nov 14, 1927 - Pittsburgh - PA - Tank filled with 5 million cubic feet of natural gas exploded when a maintenance worker exposed it to an open flame lamp - 28 people died, hundreds were injured.

Nov 15, 1864 - Atlanta - GA - Confederate States of American - Union General Sherman "Burns Atlanta"

Nov 15, 1915 - Rome - NY - City Hall burns

Nov 15, 1938 - New York - NY - First live telecast of a fire on television

Nov 16, 1857 - Lockport - NY - Much of Draper's Mills and Spaulding's Mill destroyed by fire - $100,000 loss

Nov 16, 1868 - Brooklyn - NY - 259½ Fulton Ave - Mrs. Furgeson's fancy goods store - Wooden building with exposure to other wooden buildings - $22,000 damage

Nov 18, 1819 - Schenectady - NY - Business district at Washington Avenue burns down - 100 buildings destroyed

Nov 18, 1954 - Evans - NY - Bixby Mansion Fire on Old Lakeshore Rd. The twenty room house is destroyed

Nov 18, 1960 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 8th Alarm - Lower Broadway at Grand Street - 3 firefighters killed - 5 story lofted building loaded with hay - Fire spread to five other buildings

Nov 18, 1963 - Atlantic City - NJ - Surfside Hotel fire - 25 people died

Nov 19, 1940 - Lakeview - OH - Athol Springs Lumber Yard Fire

Nov 21, 1980 - Las Vegas - NV - MGM Grand Hotel fire - 84 people died, 679 injured

Nov 22, 1950 - New York (Queens) - NY - 2nd Alarm - Box 9680 - Richmond Hill - Long Island Railroad - Passenger train at full speed crash into stopped train killing 70

Nov 22, 1961 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 786 - 7th Ave at West 42nd Street - Times Tower - Line of Duty Death

Nov 25, 1897 - Dawson - Yukon Territory Canada - Thanksgiving Day - With temperatures at 58 degrees below zero a blaze broke out in the M & N Saloon after a dance-hall girl threw a burning lamp at a rival - The blaze destroyed two saloons and the Opera House - This same girl was responsible for a major fire in Dawson on Oct 25, 1898

Nov 26, 1904 - New York (Queens) - NY - 4th Alarm - Queens County Court House burns - 1 firefighters killed

Nov 27, 1892 - Halifax - Nova Scotia - Canada - Old City Home fired claims the lives of 35 residents.

Nov 28, 1909 - Burnaby & New Westminster - British Columbia Canada - Landslide, Train Derailed. - 22 killed -

Nov 28, 1912 - Schenectady - NY - Englehardt & Cohen Dry Goods Store burned down

Nov 28, 1969 - Fayetteville - AR - Meat processing building on the University of Arkansas Farm was destroyed by fire

Nov 29, 1958 - Fargo - ND - Broadway and Main Ave - Fire destroyed the Gunkelman & Sons seed processing plant and elevator

Nov 29, 1988 - Kansas City - MO - Southeast section of city - Construction site explosion kills many firefighters - Several years later several people are found guilty of lighting fires in tractor trailers at the site containing ammonium nitrate

Nov 29, 1988 - Kansas City - MO - Southeast section of city - Construction site explosion kills many firefighters - Several years later several people are found guilty of lighting fires in tractor trailers at the site containing ammonium nitrate

Nov 30, 1882 - Cambridge - MD - Christ Church destroyed by fire - The brick structure was built in 1797

Dec 01, 1956 - Chicago - IL - Lady of Angels School Fire, built 1910 - Fire in North Wing burned undetected for 20 minutes - Basement fire extended past first and second floors to cockloft - Fire then dropped down to second floor - 93 of the 250 students and nuns perished in the fire which was brought under control in an hour

Dec 03, 1956 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 1499 and Manhattan 4th Alarm Luckenback Pier

Dec 04, 1894 - Rome - NY - Rome Locomotive Works burns

Dec 04, 1898 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - Home Insurance Company (First Skyscraper Fire)

Dec 04, 1903 - Schenectady - NY - John Street - Old New York Central freight house destroyed by fire

Dec 04, 1980 - Westchester County - NY - Stouffer's Inn, 26 people died

Dec 05, 1876 - New York - NY - Fire Fatal - Next door to PD Station House - Brooklyn Theater (Conway´s Theater) - 290 die

Dec 05, 1953 - Vicksburg - MS - Tornado rips through downtown district killing and injuring 230 - $25 million in damage.

Dec 06, 1907 - Monongah - WV - Coal mine explosion claims 360 lives

Dec 06, 1917 - Halifax - NS - Major Explosion - Ammunition ship carrying over 5,000,000 pounds of explosives collides in harbor with a steamer - Resulting explosion showers the city with debris and destruction - 1600 residents die - 6000 injured - 10,000 homeless - 300 acres of city leveled - Largest non-natural explosion in entire history of world until World War 2 - Firefighters from the Engine Company "Patricia" killed answering the call included Deputy Chief William Brunt, Captain Michael Maltus and hoseman Frank Killeen. Frank Leahy, another hoseman, was later to die of injuries. The city of Boston MA was the first on scene offering assistance to the city of Halifax. $750,000 dollars were donated along with a large amount of tents and blankets - Boston also sent a large contingent of nurses and doctors via rail to the devastated city. Although help from others arrived at a later point, the Bostonians were the last to leave city. In gratitude the citizen of Halifax have sent the citizens of Boston a huge Christmas tree every year

Dec 07, 1941 - Pearl Harbor - Territory of Hawaii - Multiple fires and explosions due to military attack by foreign nation - 2400 deaths

Dec 07, 1946 - Atlanta - GA - Fire Fatal - Winecroft Hotel - 120 die

Dec 08, 1922 - Astoria - OR - 30 downtown blocks destroyed by fire - Rainstorm prevents further devastation

Dec 08, 1972 - Chicago - IL - Midway Airport - United Flight 533 crashes

Dec 09, 1796 - New York - NY - The "Coffee House" Slip burns in a notable fire

Dec 09, 1956 - Hope - British Columbia - Canada - TCA Northstar Crashes, near Hope - British Columbia Canada - onto Mt. Slesse - 62 killed -

Dec 09, 1969 - Evans - NY - Rte 5 - The Wagon Wheel Restaurant burns

Dec 10, 1882 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 53 - 6th anf Hoadley, 1 civilian killed in Hurrins Flour Mill fire

Dec 10, 1929 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 4th Alarm - Box 1549 RKO Pathe Studio Park Ave at E 134 St.

Dec 11, 1861 - Charlestown - SC - Confederate States of America - Most of City destroyed by fire

Dec 11, 1880 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 39 - General Alarm - W. Kelly, D. Love, T. Cooling Engine 4, A. Barret Engine 6, E. Parker Volunteer, Killed in the Gay Fire

Dec 11, 1934 - Lansing - MI - Hotel Kerns - Four-story 211 room brick hotel was filled with 215 registered guests - 34 people, including 7 state legislators died and 44 were injured, including 14 firefighters

Dec 11, 1944 - Southern Onario - ON - Snowstorm in Southern Ontario - 21 killed

Dec 11, 1983 - Houston - TX - Borden's Ice Cream Plant - Two-story plant blew apart from an anhydrous ammonia explosion

Dec 12, 1946 Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 1753 Tenement Collapse Amsterdam Ave at W 183 St. Line of Duty Death

Dec 13, 1951 - Fargo - ND - Main Avenue at 7th Street - Historic Earle Hotel and Waldorf destroyed by fire - 3 people perish

Dec 14, 1969 - Fayetteville - AR - Central Methodist Church gutted by fire - Dickson Street and Highland Avenue. - Fire raged out of control for more than four hours destroyed the interior of the Central Methodist Church - $600,000 loss - Damage was contained to the interior of the building

Dec 15, 1870 - New York - NY - Building collapse - 8 Story Brick building falls killing 4 people and crushing two smaller buildings

Dec 15, 1949c. - Stephentown - NY - Rte 22 north - 2 story occupied dwelling destroyed by fire

Dec 15, 1967 - New York (Manhattan) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 676 - Morgan Post Office Annex 9th Ave at West 30 Street

Dec 15, 1980 - Whiteville - NC - Fire demolishes McDonalds

Dec 16, 1835 - New York - NY - Great Fire - Fire started at 25 Merchant St in Wall Street Financial District - 5 Story Bldg spread to several blocks - Fire Dept at time consisted of 49 engines and 6 hook & ladders - New York Averaged 500 major fires a year - 600+ buildings destroyed in below zero temps - Hydrants and pumps frozen - Chief orders) 33 bldgs dynamited to form firebreak - $30,000,000 property loss

Dec 16, 1960 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm (Manhattan 2nd Alarm - Staten Island 2nd Alarm) - Box 1231 - - United and TWA airliners crash over city

Dec 17, 1996 - Somerset West - South Africa - Bush fire ext. to 15,000 ton sulphur pile, plume affects 500, 2 killed, 2500 immediately evacuated

Dec 18, 1861 - Wellsboro - PA - Seven stores destroyed by fire

Dec 18, 1895 - Great Bend - PA - Box 284 - Fire at home of Daniel O'Leary lost to fire - Caused by tipping over of a barrel in which hams were smoking

Dec 18, 1975 - New York - NY - Blue Angel Night Club, 7 dead

Dec 19, 1907 - Jacobs Creek - PA - Coal mines explosion takes 240 lives

Dec 19, 1960 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm (Manhattan 5 Alarm) - Box 308 USS Constellation Brooklyn Navy Yard

Dec 20, 1874 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 241 - Steigler and Meisner Tannery Fire, Camp Washington $61,000 loss

Dec 20, 1920 - New York - NY - The last horse drawn engine in the city is "put out to pasture"

Dec 20, 1970 - Tucson - AZ - Pioneer International Hotel, 28 people died

Dec 21, 1884 - Schenectady - NY - Centre Street - Central Garden Theatre burns

Dec 22, 1908 - Schenectady - NY - Gazette Block heavily damaged by fire

Dec 22, 1910 - Chicago - IL - Box 2162 - Immediate 4-11 alarm with special call of 30 engines - Chicago Union Stockyards fire - Nelson Morris and Company Plant - $400,000 property damage - Twenty-two firemen, including the Fire Marshal and several Captains and Lieutenants killed by collapsing wall - All out sounded 26 hours later

Dec 22, 1976 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 3rd Alarm - Box 590 - Fulton Street at Nevins Street - Fields Department Store

Dec 23, 1914 - Anaconda - MT - Gregson Hot Springs - The dance hall and some adjoining buildings caught fire. One week and one day later, the hotel plunge and other buildings caught fire and burned. Both fires were blamed on faulty wiring.

Dec 23, 1925 - Waynesboro - PA - Several buildings in business district destroyed by fire - $1,000,000 loss - 4 volunteer firefighters kills by falling wall, 5 other injured, 2 seriously

Dec 24, 1851 - Washington - DC - Fire devastated the Library of Congress, destroying about 35,000 volumes.

Dec 24, 1924 - Oklahoma - OK - Hobart, Babb Switch School; 35 people died during a stage performance of the annual Christmas songfest a candle felt into the branches of the Christmas tree causing it to burst into flames in the one-room schoolhouse; 36 people, mostly small children died

Dec 26, 1811 - Richmond VA - Theater fire - 160 people died including the governor and a former U.S. senator

Dec 27, 1853 - New York - NY - The enormous clipper ship Great Republic burns prior to maiden voyage

Dec 27, 1867 - Cincinnati - OH - Box 15 - General Alarm 53 E. 2nd St. Boyle and Miller Co. 1 Firefighters injured, $450,000 loss 1867

Dec 27, 1983 - Buffalo - NY - North Division Street at Grosvenor Street - 6 Firefighters die as a result of a propane tank explosion in a building

Dec 27, 1998 - Detroit - MI - unknown address - 2 unit dwelling fire - Six children die

Dec 28, 1930 - Bismark - ND - The old Dakota Territory Capitol building, was destroyed by fire

Dec 28, 1979 - Lancaster - SC - Lancaster County Jail fire kills 10 inmates

Dec 28, 1982 - Evans - NY - Vacant Sturgeon Pt. Hotel - 3 1/2 story wooden frame was totally involved on arrival

Dec 29, 1905c. - New York - NY - Six story factory building completely destroyed by fire - Exposure to tenements and Consolidated Gas Company tanks - $300,000 loss - 32 fire companies to scene - 5 firefighters injured

Dec 29, 1963 - Jacksonville - FL - Roosevelt Hotel fire - 22 people died

Dec 29, 1989 - New York (Bronx) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 2118 - Locust Ave at East 134th Street - Con Ed Hellgate Plant

Dec 30, 1872 - Alexandria - VA - Union Street - A row of five 3 story brick warehouse buildings - 4 buildings totally destroyed, 5th building heavy damage upper floors - $70,000 loss

Dec 30, 1903 - Chicago - IL - Fire Multiple Fatal - 24-28 West Randolph Street - Iroquois Theater - Fire in backdrops - Fire out in 30 minutes - All die from smoke or being trampled within 15 minutes - 602 die - Theater opened in Nov 1903 - Theater was advertised as fireproof - Show was standing room only for a afternoon performance of the musical Mr. Blue Beard, Junior - 1,900 people in audience, mostly women and children, with 500 performers and backstage personnel - Tightrope artist caught above the stage died - Due to long history of theater fires around the world, considerable regulations existed, but were not followed at this theater - Stage scenery made of canvas painted with highly flammable oil paints and hung close to hot lights - Standard precautions were supposed to include firemen stationed near the stage with fire extinguishers, hoses and pikes for pulling down scenery - An asbestos curtain should have dropped down between stage and audience, it got stuck part way down due to improper positioning and poor design - The curtain turned out to be quite flammable and burned rapidly - Sufficient exits and trained ushers should have guided patrons in case of fire - The theater had never had a fire drill - Many of the exits were barred or had non standard mechanisms for opening - The minimally damaged building reopened less than a year later as the Colonial Theater

Dec 30, 1951 - near Cobourg - Ontario Canada - North Continental Airlines C46E Crashes 26 Killed

Dec.30, 1958 - Rome - NY - Green Acres Restaurant burns

Dec.30, 1975 - Pacific Ocean - Pacific Ocean - Norwegian Super Tanker Berge Istra torn apart by explosions, sinks into Marianas Trench with 30 crew

Dec 31, 1872 - Montreal - Canada - St. Peter's Street - Ames and Holden Wholesale shoe and boot store and Nelson and Woods fancy goods store and broom factory destroyed by fire - Several firemen dangerously burned - $300,000 loss

Dec 31, 1933 - New York (Brooklyn) - NY - 5th Alarm - Box 960 + Manhattan 3rd Alarm - Bedford Ave at Fulton Street = Brevoort Hotel

Dec 31, 1979 - Chapais - Quebec - Opanmiska Club - New Years Eve party fire killed 44 and serious injured 50

Dec 31, 1986 - San Juan - PR - Dupont Plaza Hotel fire - 96 die

misplaced data: Standard Oil Plant Greenpoint First Floor Restaurant 187 East 93rd Street at Third Avenue Other: 1890's - Waterville NH - Drake Mill, built 1861, burned - was rebuilt

off season 1860-1861 - Greenlye's Hotel (Opened July 1, 1860 burned - 3 Story wood 100x40