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John Leonard Orr (born April 26, 1949) [1] is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter.A fire captain and arson investigator in Glendale, California, Orr was convicted of serial arson and four counts of murder; [2] he is believed to have set nearly 2,000 fires in a 30 year arson spree, most of them between 1984 and 1991, making him the most prolific serial ...
Soon after the first engine arrived to fight the fatal hardware store blaze in South Pasadena, John Orr materialized and began snapping photos. ... The Ole's fire killed four people, including a 2 ...
Nearly two weeks after the Eaton fire forced Claire Robinson to flee her Altadena home, she returned, donning a white hazmat suit, a respirator and goggles. The L.A. wildfires left neighborhoods ...
May 8 – Woolworth store fire in Manchester, England, killed 10. [113] [114] June 9 – Luna Park Ghost Train fire, at Luna Park Sydney, in Australia, killed 7. [115] July 12 – Hotel Corona de Aragón fire in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, killed at least 80.
L.A. Fire Victims Describe Their Devastating Losses. Simmone Shah. January 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM. A view of a burned house and a car as greater Los Angeles fire continue, in Altadena, Los Angeles ...
The Rhoads Opera House Fire occurred on January 13, 1908, in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, United States. The opera house caught fire during a stage play sponsored by nearby St. John's Lutheran Church. Of the approximately 400 men, women, and children either in attendance or associated with the performance of the play, 171 perished in various ways ...
Eaton fire victim Jose Medina puts out donated children's shoes Tuesday for fire victims returning to their burned-out homes in Altadena. His nephew, Jose Velazquez, not pictured, organized the ...
At 12:07 p.m., firefighters had contained the blaze, and entered the burned-out building to discover seven store employees had died of smoke inhalation, and the gunman had fatally shot himself. [9] [10] [11] Fire Department officials discovered that the store's sprinkler had been shut down, in violation of the local fire code. [12]