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The National Personnel Records Center fire of 1973, [1] also known as the 1973 National Archives fire, was a fire that occurred at the Military Personnel Records Center (MPRC) in the St. Louis suburb of Overland, Missouri, from July 12–16, 1973. The fire destroyed some 16 million to 18 million official U.S. military personnel records.
Over 90 onlookers gathered on the highway were burned or injured, some badly. The most severely burned, including some of the firefighters, were airlifted to hospitals in Las Vegas and Phoenix. This incident was the worst firefighter tragedy in Arizona until 2013 when 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighters were killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire .
The second Great Chelsea fire destroying 18 city blocks—note the fire hoses running down the center of the street. The Great Chelsea fire of 1973, also known as the second Great Chelsea fire, was a conflagration that occurred on October 14, 1973, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a city directly across the Chelsea Creek from East Boston.
The Roseville Yard Disaster was an accidental explosion and fire that occurred on April 28, 1973, in the United States at a major Southern Pacific rail yard in the city of Roseville, California. [1] The shipment of munitions bound for the Vietnam War originated at the Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot in Hawthorne, Nevada. Explosions continued ...
The UpStairs Lounge attack was the largest in U.S. history to target the LGBTQ community until 2016, when it was surpassed by the Pulse nightclub massacre.
"The Crying Boy" picture displayed in their living room stayed unmarked while pictures on either side of it had been completely consumed by the flames. On 25 October 1985 in Heswall , Merseyside , a pair of the paintings hanging in the living and dining rooms of a house belonging to the Amos family were found intact after a gas explosion ...
Wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area continued to burn mostly out of control on Thursday, with at least five blazes engulfing more than 45 square miles.. At least 16 people have died as a ...
Pictures show Hughes Fire burn in Los Angeles County. Photos taken at the scene captured the fiery scene as first responders battle the blazes and vehicles flee.