Archive for October 2nd, 2007

Historical Moment: Ohio Fraternity House Fire

A fire started by a cigarette thought to have been extinguished, re-ignited during the night, damaging a fraternity house and killing a 19-year old resident.
A campus security officer responding to an early morning disturbance call at a nearby fraternity house notice the smoke coming from a second floor window. […]

Historical Moment: The 1998 Göteborg Discothèque fire
Just before midnight on 29 October, 1998, a fire raced through an upstairs discotheque jammed with almost 400 teen-agers at a Halloween dance in Goteborg, Sweden. The investigations after the fire estimated over 400 people to be in the building, for a facility licensed to hold 150 persons.
A […]