Directory of Fires Resources

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Sites and categories devoted to Great Fires.

Subcategories

• Buncefield Fuel Depot Fire
• Cairo-Luxor, Egypt Train Fire 2002
• Centralia Mine Fire
• Chicago Fire 1871
• Hartford Circus Fire 1944
• Hinckley, Minnesota Fire 1894
• London Fire 1666
• New London, Texas School Explosion 1937
• Peshtigo Fire 1871
• Rhode Island Nightclub Fire 2003
• San Bruno, California Pipeline Explosion 2010
• San Francisco Earthquake and Fire 1906
• Texas City Disaster 1947
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1911

Resources in This Category

• Fires and Explosions

  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001447.html
  List of dates, places, and death tolls of some of history's worst fires.

• Our Lady of the Angels School Fire, December 1, 1958, Chicago, IL

  http://www.olafire.com/
  On December 1, 1958, Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago caught fire, killing 92 children and 3 nuns. Contains photos and information about this tragic fire, its victims and survivors.

• Petroleum Oil Fire Disasters in Urhoboland

  http://www.waado.org/UrhoboHistory/FireDisasters/FireDisasters.html
  A series of articles on fires with photo galleries located in Nigeria's Niger Delta from 1998 to 2000.

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