1 First salaried fire department established, Cincinnati (OH), 1853
2 Wayside Inn board and care home fire kills 25, Farmington (MO), 1979
3 Balmer North coal mine explosion kills 15, Natal (BC), 1967
4 St. Anthony’s Hospital fire kills 74, Effingham (IL), 1949
5 Cornell dorm fire kills 9, a day before sprinklers were due, Ithaca (NY), 1967
6 Marting Arms sporting goods store fire kills 41, Richmond (IN), 1968
7 First US/Japan Fire Research/Safety Panel Gaithersburg (MD), 1976
8 Banner coal mine explosion kills 128, Littleton (AL), 1911
9 First meeting of National Board of Fire Underwriters, 1866
10 Eddystone Ammunition Company explosion kills 133, Eddystone (PA), 1917
11 Gulf of Venezuela explosion kills 25, Port Arthur (TX), 1926
12 Fireworks factory fire kills 32, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, 1979
13 Munitions works explosion kills 45, Lapua, Finland, 1976
14 Harbor explosion kills 700, Bombay, India, 1944
15 Museum of Modern Art fire destroys Monet painting, New York (NY), 1958
16 SS Grandcamp and Monsanto plant explosion kills 468, Texas City (TX), 1947
17 First municipal law on fire escapes from tenements passes New York (NY), 1860
18 Earthquake fire kills 315+ and loss worth $7,132 million (2003 dollars), San Francisco (CA), 1906
19 Princess Irene ship fire kills 20, Rhine River, Germany, 1975
Religious group complex fire kills 47, Waco (TX), 1993
Alfred P. Murrah Federal building bombing kills 168, Oklahoma City (OK), 1995
20 Imperial Hotel fire kills 24, Bangkok, Thailand, 1971
21 First firehouse pole installed, New York (NY), 1878
Ohio state penitentiary fire kills 320, Columbus (OH), 1930
22 Keen Mountain coal mine explosion kills 45, Hanger (VA), 1938
23 Rhythm Club fire kills 207, Natchez (MS), 1940
24 First alarm received from first fire box alarm system, Boston (MA), 1851
25 Antiques exhibition explosion kills 33, Todi, Italy, 1982
26 Chernobyl nuclear power facility fire kills 31, Ukraine, USSR, 1986
27 SS Sultana boiler explosion kills 1,547, Mississippi River, 1865
28 Eccles #5 & #6 coal mine explosion kills 181, Eccles (WV), 1914
29 Civil disturbance fires, loss worth $743 million (2003 dollars), Los Angeles (CA), 1992
30 Federal #3 coal mine explosion kills 97, Everetteville (WV), 1927