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The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States that in the summer of 1910 burned three million acres (4,700 sq mi; 12,100 km 2, approximately the size of Connecticut) in North Idaho and Western Montana, with extensions into Eastern Washington and Southeast British ...
The cause of the fire remains unsolved. Investigators at the time believed it was caused by a carelessly flicked cigarette; [ 29 ] however, others suspected an arsonist . In 1950, while being investigated on other arson charges, Robert Dale Segee (1929–1997), who was an adolescent at the time of the fire, confessed to starting the blaze. [ 30 ]
"The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Weston Fire Marshal, however based on the preliminary investigation it appears the fire began in the garage and was the result of frying a ...
The bowling alley where the fire started had gone without government fire inspections for five years before the fire. [20] [11] The cause of this lapse appeared to be an agreement written in 1961 from the Connecticut State Fire Marshal to both municipalities involved that was forgotten about after the retirement of a Port Chester fire inspector ...
One person is dead after a fire on West Boulevard in Hartford.
A house fire claimed the lives of four children in Somers, Connecticut, on Tuesday.. The four children — all under 12 years old — were inside their two-family home when a fire broke out on 2 ...
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.
A Connecticut home blaze on Thanksgiving was likely the result of a person frying a turkey inside the house’s garage, the fire department said. ... but have not revealed an official cause. While ...