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230. 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. During a concert by the rock band Great White, a pyrotechnic display ignited flammable acoustic foam ...
Cocoanut Grove fire. / 42.35000°N 71.06833°W / 42.35000; -71.06833. The Cocoanut Grove fire was a nightclub fire which took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 28, 1942, and resulted in the deaths of 492 people. It is the deadliest nightclub fire in history and the third-deadliest single-building fire (after the September 11 ...
The Rhythm Club fire (or The Natchez Dance Hall Holocaust) was a fire in a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi on the night of April 23, 1940, which killed 209 people and severely injured many others. [1] [2] Hundreds of people were trapped inside the building. At the time, it was the second deadliest building fire in the history of the nation.
Two bodies were removed from the Viennese Room. A small number of fire victims died after being rescued from the scene: one on June 25, and one on July 2. The last victim of the fire, Barbara Thornhill of Delhi Township, died on March 1, 1978, nine months after the tragedy. This brought the number of verified deaths to 165.
He joined the band Great White in 2000, played in Samantha 7, The Bullet Boys, and played in Nick Menza 's solo project. Longley also did session work for many artists, including Nancy Sinatra and performed uncredited on many works of music. Longley died in The Station nightclub fire on February 20, 2003, which claimed a total of 100 lives.
The Gulliver's nightclub fire occurred in the early hours of June 30, 1974, on the border of Port Chester, New York and Greenwich, Connecticut. The fire killed 24 patrons and injured 19 patrons and 13 firemen. [1] The fire was caused by arson in an adjacent bowling alley that had been aimed at covering up a minor burglary there.
Peter White, known for his role as attorney Lincoln (Linc) Tyler on soap opera “All My Children” and for his role onstage and on screen in “The Boys in the Band,” died of melanoma at his ...
On July 22, 1991, Dahmer's final victim Tracy Edwards escaped his apartment and made it out alive. According to ABC News, Tracy led Milwaukee police to discover 84 Polaroid pictures in a bedside ...