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After completing high school in La Grange, Luce attended Northwestern University, studying science. [1] Luce moved to El Centro, California in 1913 to become a distributor for Maxwell automobiles (a forerunner of Chrysler). Luce enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917. [4] He fought in France in 1918, and was returned to the U.S. in 1919. [1]
1891 monument in Hoboken, New Jersey. The list of firefighting monuments and memorials covers firefighters' contributions, and some memorials to other fire victims, such as the mass memorial to unknown victims of the 1871 Peshtigo fire, which caused the greatest loss of life of any fire in the United States.
Burned school buildings in the United States (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "School fires in the United States" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
July 16 – 2004 Kumbakonam School fire in Tamil-Nadu, India, killed 94. [195] August 1 – Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, killed 370 and injured 500. August 5 – The Bauges Riding school fire in Lescheraines, France, killed 10. October 17 – Parque Central Complex fire in Caracas, Venezuela. [196]
Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1 (FL-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Miami-Dade County, Florida and sponsored by the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department. [1] The mission of FL-TF1 is to respond to natural and man-made disasters to provide search and rescue as well as both medical and communications support.
A mobile morgue unit arrived Tuesday to help Hawaii officials working painstakingly to identify remains, as Maui County released the first names of people killed in the wildfire that all but ...
A 25-year-old man is facing murder charges after deputies alleged he beat a 55-year-old man to death using a fire extinguisher after hotel staff asked him to leave for destroying property
Harry Mortimer Archer (April 23, 1868 – May 17, 1954) was a professor of Medicine, and the chief surgeon of the Fire Department of New York City. [1] Following his death a letter to The New York Times, from Richard C. Patterson Jr., one of his colleagues, described how Archer had attended every fire in the city for seventy-five years.