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100 Years After the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

From the PRI radio program "The World". Provides photos, text and an audio narration about the 100th anniversary of the tragic fire.

Cocoanut Grove Fire

A fire broke out in Boston’s very popular Cocoanut Grove nightclub on November 28, 1942, killing 492 people, sending 166 to Boston-area hospitals and impacting countless others. This is the deadliest known night club fire in the world.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Fires

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Great Baltimore Fire of 1904

Interactive map showing the Great Fire's destruction of the Baltimore business district in 1904.

More on the General Slocum | The Legal Genealogist

An article by Judy G. Russell about the 1904 fire aboard the steamship General Slocum.

Peshtigo Fire Page

Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

A group spearheading the creation of commemorative events.

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

The Great Fires of 1871 in the Northwest

Wisconsin.

The Peshtigo Fire

The Richmond Theater Fire: Early America's First Great Disaster

Provides information & analysis of the tragic 1811 fire at the Richmond Theater in Richmond, Virginia. Over 70 prominent citizens of Richmond were lost in the fire. See the link to victims & survivor list organized by surname. The site supports sales of a book written on the tragedy.

The Tragedy of the Precious Blood Church Fire

Compilation of various resources & comparative lists of the reported deaths from the 1875 fire in Holyoke, MA.

The Triangle Factory Fire

New York City. Sweatshop fire on March 25, 1911.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial 1911

Up in flames | The Legal Genealogist

An article by Judy Russell about the Great Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871.

Victims of the 1811 Richmond Theater Fire

The fire occurred in Richmond, Virginia on December 26, 1811 and killed 72 people including many government officials.

WGBH American Experience . Triangle Fire | PBS

From PBS' "American Experience" television program. The program can be viewed online. Includes interactive maps, transcriptions of original documents such as newspaper coverage of the event.