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In May, a fire completely destroyed the National Library, with the loss of 100,000 volumes as well as 40,000 manuscripts. September 7 – Gulf Hotel fire in Houston, Texas, killed 55. 1944. May 12 – Union Hotel fire in Oroville, California, killed 15. July 6 – Hartford Circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut, killed 168.
The Caldor Fire was a large wildfire that burned 221,835 acres (89,773 hectares) in the Eldorado National Forest and other areas of the Sierra Nevada in El Dorado, Amador, and Alpine County, California, in the United States during the 2021 California wildfire season. [2] The fire was first reported on Saturday, August 14, 2021, and was fully ...
On June 24, 2021, at approximately 1:22 a.m. EDT, [a] Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, United States, partially collapsed, causing the deaths of 98 people. Four people were rescued from the rubble, but one died of injuries shortly after arriving at the hospital. [9]
The Marshall Fire was a destructive wildfire and urban conflagration that started on December 30, 2021, shortly after 11:00 a.m. MST, [3] as a grass fire in Boulder County, Colorado. [4] The fire killed two people and became the most destructive fire in Colorado history in terms of buildings destroyed, [quantify] surpassing the 2013 Black ...
The 2021 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the U.S. state of California. By the end of 2021 a total of 8,835 fires were recorded, burning 2,568,948 acres (1,039,616 ha) across the state. [1] Approximately 3,629 structures were damaged or destroyed by the wildfires, and at least seven firefighters and two ...
A heat dome gripped the province of British Columbia, and much of Western North America, from June 25–30, 2021, increasing the risk of wildfires.. On June 30, the town of Lytton was evacuated due to a fire that destroyed most buildings and grew to over 300 square miles (780 km 2) and sent people fleeing for their lives.
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Fire. On 17 December 2021, at 10:20 a.m. local time, a fire broke out at an eight-story building in Kita, a ward of Osaka, Japan. The fire broke out in a psychiatric clinic that is located on the fourth floor, [8] called Nishi Umeda Kokoro to Karada no Kurinikku (西梅田こころとからだのクリニック, Nishi Umeda Clinic for the Mind ...