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Deaths. 100 [a] Non-fatal injuries. 230. The Station nightclub fire occurred on the evening of February 20, 2003, at The Station, a nightclub and hard rock music venue located at 211 Cowesett Avenue in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people and injuring 230. During a concert by the rock band billed as "Jack Russell's ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
Factory nightclub fire: Quito: Ecuador: 15 deaths, 35 injuries [11] nightclub 2008-09-21: Wuwang Club fire: Shenzhen: China: 43 deaths, 88 injuries: nightclub 2009-01-01: Santika Club fire: Bangkok: Thailand: 66 deaths, 222 injuries: nightclub 2009-01-29: Starmaker Fireworks Factory explosion: Trece Martires: Philippines: 8+ deaths, 70 ...
In addition to the mutual aid received from the College Station and Bryan, Texas EMS, Fire, and Police Departments, members of Texas Task Force 1, the state's elite emergency response team, arrived to assist the rescue efforts. [4] Within minutes of the collapse, word of the accident spread among students and the community.
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.
On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. The flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited, and triggered a chain reaction of explosions that killed 134 sailors and ...
The 2004 Kumbakonam school fire happened in a school in Kumbakonam in the Thanjavur district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. On 16 July 2004, 94 students from the Krishna English Medium School's primary section were killed after the school's thatched roof caught fire. [2] [3] The accident was one of the four most significant fire accidents ...
28 dead, 314 injured. 15 aircraft destroyed. cost to USN over US$ 126 million. The 1969 USS Enterprise fire was a major fire and series of explosions that broke out aboard USS Enterprise on January 14, 1969, off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. After a Zuni rocket detonated under a plane's wing, the ensuing fire touched off more munitions, blowing ...