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1904 – Great Fire of Toronto, April 19 fire that destroyed a large section of Downtown Toronto, Canada. 1905 – Watson Street Lodging House fire in Glasgow, Scotland on November 19, killed 39. [5] 1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [6] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10.
On 20 November 1992, a fire broke out in Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and one of the official residences of the British monarch. The castle suffered extensive damage and was fully repaired within the next five years at a cost of £36.5 million, in a project led by the conservation architects Donald Insall Associates.
A skyscraper fire or high-rise fire is a class of structural fire specific to tall buildings. Skyscraper fires are technically challenging for fire departments: they require unusually high degrees of organization and cooperation between participating firefighting units to contain and extinguish. Skyscraper fires are often multiple-alarm fires .
1937 – Blackwater fire of 1937 in Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming, killed 15 firefighters on August 21. 1939 – Black Friday bushfires in Australia. 71 people killed. 1949 – The great forest fire of 1949 in the Landes Forest, wildfire, 256,000 acres (1,040 km 2) lost, 82 people killed. 1949 – Mann Gulch fire.
The Lime Belt Fire originated as three separate fires that burned together. On August 31, the Tunk Block fire was separated from this complex, as it was about to merge with the North Star Fire, leaving the complex with an area of 133,118 acres. Smoke near Omak. Paradise Fire [37] Jefferson. May 15.
The 1992 Fountain Fire was a large and destructive wildfire in Shasta County, California. The fire ignited on August 20 in an act of probable but unattributed arson, and was quickly driven northeast by strong winds. It outpaced firefighters for two days, exhibiting extreme behavior such as long-range spot fires, crown fire runs, and ...
From 1992 to 2007, the black population dropped by 123,000, while the Latino population grew more than 450,000. [206] According to the Los Angeles police statistics, violent crime fell by 76 percent between 1992 and 2010, which was a period of declining crime across the country. It was accompanied by lessening tensions between racial groups. [210]
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