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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
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