Hotel Fires

MGM Grand Fire in Las Vegas

Pioneer Hotel in Tucson with 28 Fatalities

List of Hotel Fires

Hotel Incidents Hotel Disasters

Hiatt Regency Skywalk Collapse in Kansas City

This tragedy was caused by modifications to Kansas City Building Codes to  encourage downtown development, mainly by elimination of the requirement for special inspectors, whose job it is to track field  changes  like this and make sure they are reviewed by the engineer of record. Here is an additional article on the event.

Nightclub Fires

Cocoanut Grove

Rhythm Night Club

Beverly Hills Supper Club

The Station a pdf file on the incident   Video of Station Fire  More information on Station Nightclub Fire

Hospital Fires and Incidents

List of hospital fires

St. Anthony's Hospital Fire

Warehouse Fires

Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse Fire

Six firefighters die in abandoned cold storage warehouse because of homeless firestarters, unregulated finish materials, and firefighting operations that contribute even more oxygen.

K-Mart Warehouse Fire

Code tradeoffs for fire wall openings to facilitate forklift traffic create missiles out of aerosol cans and destroy the entire facility after overcoming the sprinkler system.

Phoenix Warehouse Fire

Tilt up wall collapses less than an hour and 14 minutes after fire starts, sprinkler system overwhelmed.

Cold Storage Warehouse, Shreveport, LA

One firefighter injured, one dies in an ammonia explosion. Lessons not learned? Fire service and DOT like to classify ammonia as nonflammable gas and take a lackadaisical approach to it. However, Larry Fleur, ICC's own premier hazmat expert says this:

Theater Fires

Iriquois Theater

School Fires

Our Lady of Angels