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New York City’s Long-Held Fascination With Moving Sidewalks
New York City’s
Moving sidewalks were first proposed in New York in the 19th century, and although they never became a reality, the concept posed questions about automated transport that were way ahead of their time.
In 1871, local wine merchant and inventor Alfred Speer developed an idea that would revolutionize the way people navigated New York City. He proposed an “endless-travelling sidewalk” that would be elevated above Broadway. The system involved three moving wooden belts, each moving faster than the last, and even included cars where people could sit and smoke as they were transported around the city.
Due to lack of funding, Speer’s sidewalk never got made, but the idea didn’t die there. The world’s first-ever moving walkway debuted at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, and a similar system would receive acclaim at the Exposition Universelle in 1900.
The Paris walkway, dubbed the trottoir roulant, ran in a circle around the fair and nearly seven million visitors were reported to have used it. One woman even gave birth while in transit on the walkway, prompting her to christen the child Trottoir Roulant Benost.
New York returned to the idea of a moving sidewalk in 1902, but this time it was under much more serious consideration. According to New Scientist, New Yorkers were fed up of the “daily torture” of the rush-hour congestion on the Brooklyn Bridge. The answer, according to the city’s Bridge Commissioner Gustav Lindenthal, was to build a high-speed moving sidewalk across the bridge.
This new plan involved a looping system with four walkways, the fastest of which would contain benches so people could be comfortable as they were shuttled across the river. The plan was debated in the city’s newspapers up to a year later. In the May 8, 1903 edition of The New York Times, it was reported that the scheme would be too expensive to implement, and users would need to be charged five-cent fares to make it feasible, an unheard of amount for a commute at the time.
Although in October the Times claimed the rapid transit commission moved for “immediate adoption” of moving sidewalks, the plans were never carried out, possibly due to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Commission, which had a monopoly on public transport at the time.
There were other attempts to bring moving walkways to New York over the years, including one proposal in 1910 to replace the subway system with an underground version of the Brooklyn Bridge plan. There was also a plan to introduce it to the Williamsburg Bridge, Wall Street, and an elevated version of the subway.
Ultimately, the sidewalks of New York never moved, and the technology today is now most often seen in airports. But the trend survived. Today’s automation in personal transport can be tracked all the way back to Speer’s idea for Manhattan’s sidewalks, and the goal is the same: to minimize traffic and organize the mass of people moving in all different directions. For New Yorkers today who see the same problems as Speer did in 1871, it’s been a long time coming.
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This is a list of major urban conflagrations
Antiquity through Middle
587 BC – The destruction of the Temple and city of Jerusalem
146 BC – Carthage was systematically burned down over 17 days by the Romans at the end of the Third Punic War
164 – Great Fire of Rome, Italy
406 – A great fire burns down much of Constantinople.
532 – The Nika riots result in the destruction of much of Constantinople by fire.
847 – Borgo, Italy, the area around Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, was devastated by fire.
1041 – Fire destroys most of the old city of Bremen, Germany, including the cathedral.
1046 – A fire in Hildesheim, Germany, destroys parts of the city, including the cathedral.
1132 – In June, a huge fire in Hangzhou, China, destroyed 13,000 houses.
1135 – Great Medieval London Fire of 1135. The first of the two Great Medieval Fires of London. This blaze was so severe that it destroyed most of the city between St Paul's and St Clement Danes in Westminster.
1137 – A Great Fire in Hangzhou, China, destroyed 10,000 houses.
1157 – First Fire of Lübeck, Germany, destroys the city.
1204 – Sack of Constantinople (1204). Constantinople was burned three times during the Fourth Crusade.
1212 – the Great Fire of Suthwark London 1212. The second of the two Great Medieval Fires of London. As many as 3,000 people died on the London Bridge while trying to flee the city.
1251 – Second Fire of Lübeck, Germany, triggers the use of stone as a fire-safe building material.
1253 – Great Fire of Utrecht, the Netherlands, lasted for 9 days and destroyed much of the city.
1276 – Third Fire of Lübeck, Germany, results in a comprehensive fire safety system. This was the last major fire in the city before bombing of WW II.
1327 – Fire of Munich, Germany, destroys one-third of the city, 30 deaths.
1405 – Fire of Bern, Switzerland, destroys 600 houses, over 100 deaths.
1421 – First Great Fire of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1438 – Great Fire of Gouda, the Netherlands, almost destroys the entire city.
1452 – Second Great Fire of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, destroys three-quarters of the city.
16th century
1544 – Burning of Edinburgh - An English amphibious raid destroyed portions of the city and many surrounding villages.
1547 – The 1547 Moscow fire sparked a rebellion.
1571 – The 1571 Moscow fire occurred when the forces of the Crimean khan Devlet I Giray raided the city.
17th century
1615 – Great Fire of Wymondham, Norfolk England, two simultaneous fires destroyed 300 properties.
1624 – Oslo, Norway, destroyed by fire.
1625 – First Great Stockholm Fire, Sweden, burned for three days and destroyed a fifth of the infrastructure.
1652 – Glasgow, Scotland, a third of the city destroyed and over 1,000 families left homeless.
1653 – Great Fire of Marlborough, England, destroyed the Guildhall, St Mary's Church, the County Armoury, and 224 dwellings.
1654 – Delft Thunderclap, an explosion of a gunpowder storage facility killed between 100 and 200 people and destroyed the surrounding area of the city of Delft, the Netherlands.
1656 – Fire of Aachen destroys 4,664 houses, kills 17.
1657 – Great Fire of Meireki destroys two-thirds of the Japanese capital Edo (modern-day Tokyo).
1663 – Great Fire of Nagasaki destroys the port of Nagasaki in Japan.
Great Fire of London, 1666
1666 – Great Fire of London of 1666, which originated in a baker's shop on Pudding Lane and destroyed much of London.
1675 – Great Fire of Northampton, England. The blaze was caused by sparks from an open fire in St. Mary's Street near Northampton castle. In 6 hours it devastated the town centre, destroying about 600 buildings (three-quarters of the town) including All Saints church. 11 people died and about 700 families were made homeless.
1676 – Jamestown, Virginia was burned by Nathaniel Bacon and his followers during Bacon's Rebellion to prevent Governor Berkley from using it as a base.
1677 – Fire of Rostock, Germany, destroys 700 houses and accelerates the city's economic decline at the end of the Hanseatic period.
1678 – Hardegsen. Germany, experienced a fire during the Christmas fair that destroyed most of the town centre. There were no injuries as people were in church.
1684 – Toompea (part of modern Tallinn), a fire destroyed most of the hilltop-town.
1689 – Fire of Skopje of 1689, present-day capital of North Macedonia is burned.
1692 – Two-thirds of Usingen, Germany, is razed, later replaced by a baroque town centre.
1694 – Great Fire of Warwick, England
1696 – St. John's, Newfoundland, and 35 other settlements were burned by French forces under Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville.
18th century
1702 – Uppsala, Sweden, devastated in large part and the cathedral and Uppsala Castle severely damaged.
1702 – Bergen, at the time the largest city in Norway, seven-eighths destroyed during a storm.
1711 – Great Boston Fire of 1711. Destroyed the First Town-House
1726 – Reutlingen, Germany, Free Imperial City, 80% of all residential houses and almost all public buildings destroyed, making 1,200 families homeless.
1728 – Copenhagen Fire of 1728, Denmark, two-fifths of the city burned down during three days. 3,650 families became homeless.
1731 – Blandford Forum, Dorset, England, a large majority of the town was destroyed on 4 June. The aftermath of this fire had an Act of Parliament passed stating that rebuilding work must be in brick and tile.
1731 – Tiverton fire, Devon, England, burned nearly 300 houses.
1734 – Montreal, New France
1752 – Fire destroys 18,000 houses in Moscow, 5–6 May.
1754 – The Great Fire of Hindon swept through the village of Hindon, Wiltshire, burning 144 houses and buildings to the ground.
1755 - Earthquake, Fire in Lisbon Portugal
1759 – The Second Great Stockholm Fire (Swedish: Mariabranden meaning brand = fire) in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden, destroyed about 300 buildings.
1760 – Great Boston Fire of 1760, 349 buildings destroyed
1775 – Great Fire of Tartu, Estonia, nearly 200 buildings destroyed
1776 – First Great Fire of New York City of 1776
1776 – Around two-thirds of Varaždin, the capital of Croatia at the time, destroyed in a fire of unknown origin.
1787 – Great Boston Fire of 1787. 100 buildings destroyed in the southern part of Boston.
1788 – First Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, 856 out of 1,100 structures burned.
1788 – Great Fire of Tenmei, Kyoto, Japan, 150 killed, 37,000 houses burned, on March 6.
1794 – Second Great New Orleans Fire of 1794, 212 structures destroyed.
1795 – Copenhagen fire of 1795
19th century 1800s
1805 – Detroit, Michigan, then a wooden frontier settlement, burned except for a river warehouse.
1811 – Great Fire of Podil in Kiev, Russian Empire. Over 2,000 buildings, 12 churches and 3 abbeys destroyed; about 30 deaths.
1812 – The Fire of Moscow of 1812 was burned to deny shelter to Napoleon.
1812–1814 – The War of 1812 involved several major urban fires:
1813 – Buffalo, New York
1813 – York, Upper Canada
1814 – Burning of Washington
1813 – Portsmouth, New Hampshire
1814 – Great fire of Tirschenreuth in Tirschenreuth, Bavaria, totally destroys the town apart from the parish church and 3 neighboring buildings.
1817 – St. John's, Newfoundland
1820 – Ponce, Puerto Rico, a Spanish settlement, was almost completely destroyed on February 27.
1820 – Great Savannah Fire burned almost 500 structures, with damages of about US$4 million.
1821 – Paramaribo, Suriname, fire destroyed over 400 houses.
1821 – Great Fire of Fayetteville destroyed 500 buildings in the city.
1827 – Great Fire of Turku, Finland
1829 – Fire destroyed hundreds of buildings in Augusta, Georgia.
1831 – A fire in Fayetteville, North Carolina destroyed hundreds of buildings, and almost completely leveled the city.
1835 – Second Great Fire of New York City of 1835
1838 – Charleston, South Carolina, over 1,000 buildings damaged.
1842 – Hamburg fire, about a quarter of the inner city destroyed, 51 killed, and an estimated 20,000 homeless.
Views of Pittsburgh the day after the 1845 Great Fire. Detail from William Coventry Wall print, "Great Conflagration at Pittsburgh".
1845 – Great New York City Fire of 1845, 345 buildings destroyed
1845 – Great Fire of Pittsburgh destroyed over 1,000 buildings.
1845 – A fire at La Playa, the city port of Ponce, Puerto Rico, wiped out most of the Ponce vicinity in March.
1846 – Great Fire of 1846 in St. John's, Newfoundland, destroyed about 2,000 buildings and left 12,000 homeless.
1847 – Great Fire of Bucharest, Romania.
1848 – Fire in Medina, Ohio, destroyed the entire business district.
1849 – St. Louis Fire of 1849, saw the first US firefighter killed in the line of duty.
1849 – First Great Fire of Toronto of 1849
1850s
1850 – Kraków Fire of 1850, Poland, affects 10% of the city area.
1851 – San Francisco Fire of 1851 destroys 2,000 buildings.
1852 – Vaasa, Finland
1852 – Great Montreal Fire of 1852 in Montreal left 10,000 of the city's 57,000 residents homeless.
1854 – The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead, England, started by a spectacular explosion, killed 53 and leveled substantial property in both towns.
1858 – A large fire in Auckland, New Zealand, destroyed 3 hotels, 20 shops, more than 50 houses, the police station, theater, post office and several other buildings in the centre of town, an entire city block.
At the time Auckland had a population of about 6,300.
1862 – Troy, New York, 671 buildings destroyed
1864 – Great Fire of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, burned over four city blocks with over 50 houses and dozens of businesses razed
1861–1865 – The American Civil War involved several major city fires:
1864 – Atlanta, Georgia, burned after time given for evacuation of citizens by order of William Tecumseh Sherman
1865 – Columbia, South Carolina, burned while being occupied by troops commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman
1865 – Richmond, Virginia, burned by retreating Confederates.
1866 – Great Portland Fire of 1866, Maine, destroyed the commercial district and left 10,000 homeless.
1868 – Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria. Arson destroyed 107 houses and 146 other buildings; 4 deaths.
1869 – Great Fire of Whitstable of 1869, Kent, England, fed by strong winds, destroying 71 buildings.
1870 – Fire in Medina, Ohio, started in a wooden building with a barber shop and consumed all but two blocks of the business district, nearly wiping out the entire town.
1871 – Strong winds fed several simultaneous fires in Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois on October 8–9:
1871 – Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the downtown on October 8 and died out the following night. About 250 dead.
1871 – Peshtigo Fire of 1871, several towns destroyed in a firestorm that reached Michigan, 1,500–2,500 dead. Deadliest wildfire in American history.
1871 – Great Michigan Fire of 1871 was a series of simultaneous fires, the most prominent of which was the Port Huron Fire, which killed over 200 people in Port Huron, Michigan.
1871 – The Urbana fire destroyed central Urbana, Illinois, on October 9.
1872 – Great Boston Fire of 1872, destroyed 776 buildings and killed at least 20 people.
1874 – Chicago Fire of 1874, July 14, was in some respects very similar to the 1871 fire, but was stopped by a new fire-proof wall. It destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people.
1875 – Great Whiskey Fire, Dublin, 18 June, killed 13 people, and destroyed a malt house, a bonded warehouse, houses and a tannery in Mill Street and Chamber Street.
1877 – Paris, Texas, the first of three fires that destroyed much of the town.
1877 – Saint John, New Brunswick, fire destroyed 1,600 buildings.
1878 – The Great Fire of Hong Kong [15] destroyed 350 to 400 buildings across more than 10 acres (40,000 m2) of central Hong Kong.
1879 – Hakodate fire, Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan, caused 67 fatalities, 20,000 homeless.
1880 – On 25 September, another fire took place destroying most of the older civil records (births, baptisms, marriages, etc.) of the Ponce, Puerto Rico, parish.
1881 – Thumb Fire in Michigan burned over a million acres during a drought, 282 killed.
1883 – In mid August, a Great Fire broke out in Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, destroying the royal palace and 1,600 buildings, many housing gunpowder.
1886 – Fire in Calgary, Alberta
1886 – Great Vancouver Fire, Vancouver, British Columbia
1888 – Sundsvall Fire of 1888, Sweden, left 9,000 homeless.
1889 – Great Seattle Fire, Washington, destroyed the central business district
1889 – Great Spokane Fire, Washington, destroyed the downtown commercial district.
1889 – Great Ellensburg Fire, Washington, resulted in the city's bid to become the state capital ending in failure.
1889 – Great Bakersfield Fire of 1889, California, destroyed 196 buildings and killed 1 person.
1889 – The First Great Fire of Lynn, Massachusetts, destroyed about 100 buildings and took over 2 weeks to put out.
City of St. John's after the Great Fire of 1892
1892 – Great Fire of 1892 in St. John's, Newfoundland
1893 – Clarksville, Virginia, fire destroyed many of the blocks between the river (now the Kerr Reservoir) and 5th Street in the historic commercial core.
1894 – Great Hinckley Fire, Minnesota was a firestorm that destroyed several towns; over 400 killed.
1894 – Great Fire in Shanghai destroyed over 1,000 buildings.
1896 – Paris, Texas, the second of three fires that destroyed much of the town.
1897 – The Great Fire of Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada, destroyed 80% of the town.
1898 – Great Fire of New Westminster, British Columbia
1898 – Great fire of Park City, Utah
1899 – El Polvorin Fire in Ponce, Puerto Rico, occurred on January 25. The fire started at the U.S. Munitions Depot (on the lot currently occupied by the Ponce High School). The heroes in that fire are remembered with monuments and an obelisk in Plaza Las Delicias.
20th century1900s
1900 – Hull–Ottawa Fire of 1900, Canada. Starting in Hull, Quebec, the fire crossed the river to Ottawa, Ontario, and destroyed large areas of both cities.
1900 – Sandon, British Columbia, Canada, destroyed by fire.
1901 – Great Jacksonville Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida, destroyed the downtown area with flames seen for hundreds of miles.
1902 – The Great Conflagration of 1902, Paterson, New Jersey
1904 – Great Baltimore Fire of 1904
1904 – Second Great Fire of Toronto of 1904
1904 – Yazoo City, Mississippi (USA) fire, 25 May, destroyed entire business district of ca. 125 buildings; US$2,000,000 in damages.
1904 – Ålesund Fire, 850 buildings destroyed, c. 10,000 made homele; the fire started during a violent storm.
1906 – San Francisco earthquake and fire
1906 – Dundee Fire of 1906, Scotland, began at a whiskey warehouse with alcohol explosions spreading flames, several blocks burned.
1908 – First Great Chelsea Fire on April 12. Nearly half the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts, was destroyed.
1909 – Phoenix, British Columbia destroyed by fire, then rebuilt.
1911 – Oscoda/AuSable, Michigan
1911 – Great Fire of 1911 in Bangor, Maine, destroyed hundreds of buildings.
1912 – Houston, Texas, 56 city blocks; Houston's largest fire
1912 – Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland.
1914 – Great Salem Fire of 1914, Massachusetts
1916 – Bergen, Norway. About 300 buildings razed.
1916 – Matheson Fire, Matheson, Ontario
1916 – Paris, Texas Fire of 1916. Largest of 3 historical fires that destroyed most of the central business district and a large residential section.
1917 – The Halifax Explosion, the largest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb, sparked fires throughout Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1917 – Great Atlanta fire of 1917, during which over 300 acres (1.2 km2, 73 blocks) were destroyed.
1917 – Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917, Thessaloniki, Greece. About 9,500 buildings were destroyed.
1917 – In Gyöngyös, Hungary a fire destroyed a number of buildings, leaving around 8,000 people homeless.
1921 – Tulsa Race Riot resulted in the destruction of 35 city blocks and 1,256 residences by arson.
1922 - The Fire of Manisa, Manisa, Turkey
1922 – The Great Fire of Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey
1922 – Most of downtown Astoria, Oregon burns
1922 – The Great Fire of
1922 in the Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada, killed 43 people and burnt down 18 townships.
1923 – 1923 Tokyo fire following the Great Kantō earthquake razed half the city with over 100,000 deaths.
1923 – 1923 Berkeley Fire, California, destroyed at least 640 structures.
1925 – 1925 Decatur St. Fire, Atlanta, Georgia, left 6 firefighters dead, 8 other seriously injured.
1928 – Great Fall River fire of 1928, Massachusetts
1931 – Napier and Hastings, New Zealand. Fire engulfed much of these twin cities in the aftermath of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
1931 – Downtown fire in Marshfield, Wisconsin, killed 6 on March 28.
1931 – Half of downtown Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada, was destroyed by fire.
1934 – Hakodate, Hokkaido, a household fire began on March 21 and spread to the surrounding areas including a local court, department store, school and hospital. Over two days 2,166 people lost their lives, with 9,485 injured, 145,500 people made homeless, and 11,055 buildings lost.
1938 – 1938 Changsha Fire, 56,000 buildings burned by the Chinese army during the Second Sino-Japanese War to prevent the Japanese from getting resources, 3,000 civilians killed.
1939 – Luftwaffe Bombing of Warsaw on September 1, 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, left an estimated 1,500 killed.
1939 – Great Lagunillas Fire at Ciudad Ojeda, Venezuela, on November 14.
1940–1945 – Air raids during World War II resulted in many major city fires:
1940 – Bombing of Rotterdam, 14 May, forcing the capitulation of the Dutch government. 800 killed, 24.000 houses destroyed, 80,000 left homeless.
1940 – The Second Great Fire of London, one of the most-destructive air raids of The Blitz. 1,500 were killed.
1942 – German air bombardment of Stalingrad, Soviet Union, resulting in firestorm and 955 fatalities (original Soviet estimate).
1943 – Hamburg, 45,000 killed (largest in an air-raid on Germany)
1943 – Kassel, 10,000 killed
1944 – Braunschweig, 2,600 killed but 30,000 rescued
1944 – Darmstadt, 12,000 killed
1944 – Heilbronn, 6,500 killed
1945 – Dresden, around 30,000 killed in firestorm during one of the most-controversial Allied air-raids.
1945 – Pforzheim, a quarter of the town's population (17,000) killed.
1945 – Hildesheim, 1,500 killed
1945 – Tokyo, causing the largest urban conflagration in history, with over 100,000 killed.
1945 – Würzburg, 5,000 killed
1945 – Kobe, 8,800 killed
1945 – Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 105,000 to 120,000 killed; large fires in each city.
1941 – The great fire of Santander, Spain, destroyed the greater part of the medieval town centre.
1944 – Destruction of Warsaw by the German army and Waffen SS, as a reprisal for the Warsaw Uprising, included the deliberate burning of many buildings.
1946 – Bandung, a city in West Java, Indonesia, was burned on March 24 by Indonesians to prevent the Dutch from retaking the city, an event called "Bandung sea of fire".
1947 – Texas City Disaster, two ships explode, igniting fires throughout the city and chemical works, 460–600 killed.
1948 – Fukui earthquake with fire, 46,000 buildings and houses lost on June 28.
1949 – A fire burned for 18 hours in Chongqing's waterfront and banking district, on September 2, killed 2865 people and left more than 100,000 homeless. 7,000 buildings were destroyed.
1953 – Shek Kip Mei fire in a squatter area in Hong Kong left 58,000 homeless.
1954 – 1954 Iwanai Fire, an affective strong wind by Typhoon Marie in Hokkaido on 26 September, according to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, 38 persons were perished, 551 persons were hurt, total 261.4 acre were lost.
1955 – The Freeman Pier Fire in Seaside Heights & Seaside Park, New Jersey, United States. At least 30 businesses lost, 50 residents evacuated, no major injuries.
1956 – Franklin Street fire in New Haven, Connecticut, killed 15 on January 25.
1961 – Bukit Ho Swee Fire, flames erupt in a squatter settlement in Singapore, making 16,000 homeless.
1961 – Brentwood-Bel Air fire in Los Angeles, burned 6,090 acres (24.6 km2) and destroyed 484 homes.
1964 – The Bellflower Street Conflagration in Boston destroyed 19 apartment buildings and damaged 11.
1966 – Fire in Iloilo City, the Philippines, devastated most of the downtown area.
1973 – Second Great Chelsea Fire on October 14 destroyed 18 city blocks.
1974 – Chelsea, Massachusetts, a May 24 fire at the American Barrel Company spread to several other businesses in a two block area.
1981 – Arson fire in Lynn, Massachusetts levelled downtown factory area under redevelopment.
1982 – Keane fire, Alberta, Canada, consumed more than 500,000 hectares of forest
1982 – Village of Lopez, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, United States, entire business district, including two hotels and the fire department leveled by a wind-whipped fire. It also sparked a 100 acre forest fire nearby.
1983 – 1983 Buffalo propane explosion in Buffalo, New York kills five firefighters and two others and destroys millions in property.
1983 – Dushore, Pennsylvania A fire destroyed two blocks of the historic business district, eight businesses and four homes. The fire was intentionally set.
1984 – Oil spill set fire to the shantytown of Vila Socó, Cubatão, São Paulo, Brazil, on February 25; official death toll is 93 people although speculation is more than 200.
1985 – MOVE incident in Philadelphia destroyed 65 houses on Osage Avenue and left 250 homeless.
1985 – Annanar forest fire, Portugal, 1,500 km2 destroyed, killing 14.
1986 – Chu Ku Tsai village fire, Hong Kong, left 2,000 homeless on Lunar New Year holiday.
1986 – Aberdeen Typhoon Shelter fire, Aberdeen, Hong Kong, 150 vessels destroyed, 1,700 homeless and 2 injured on December 25.
1988 – Great Lashio Fire, Lashio, Myanmar, killed 134 and destroyed 2,000 buildings.
1988 – A fire in Lisbon, Portugal, destroyed 7 blocks of houses (7,500 m2) on August 25.
1988 – The Perkasie, Pennsylvania, fire destroyed one and a half blocks of its historic downtown.
1991 – Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments.
1993 – A tsunami and fires occurred at Okushiri Island, Japan, following the July 12 Hokkaidō earthquake, with 645 houses lost and 202 people killed.
1995 – Great Hanshin earthquake with fire, Kobe, Japan
21st century
2001 – Terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001. Of the initial casualties, approximately 2,600 deaths (including 343 firefighters and 71 law enforcement officers) were caused by fires that followed the crashes of jetliners into the World Trade Center towers in New York. At the Pentagon in Washington, DC, 125 people were killed by the plane crash and subsequent fire.
2002 – Lagos armoury explosion caused fires in Northern Lagos, Nigeria, which killed at least 1,100 people.
2002 – Edinburgh Cowgate fire, Scotland, 150 people fled their homes but there were no injuries.
2002 – Rodeo–Chediski Fire
2003 – Canberra bushfires killed 4 and destroyed over 500 homes
2003 – Cedar Fire, San Diego, second-largest California brush fire that killed 15 and destroyed 2,232 homes.
2007 – Greek forest fires destroyed 2,100 buildings.
2008 – Camden Market Fire, which caused severe damage to one of North London's most famous shopping districts.
2009 – February Black Saturday Bushfires in Victoria, Australia, resulted in 173 deaths
2010s
2010 – Dhaka fire kills 117 people in the Nimtali area of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2011 – Devastating fire in Manila, Philippines,
leaves about 8,000 people homeless and 9 injured in a Makati City squatter community.
2012 – Hurricane Sandy caused a six-alarm fire that destroyed 121 homes in Breezy Point, Queens, New York.
2013 – Yarnell Hill Fire burned over 13 square miles, destroyed over 100 homes, and killed 19 firefighters.
2013 – Lac-Mégantic derailment caused an explosion and fire in the town centre that destroyed over 30 buildings and killed 46.T he event was the deadliest train accident in Canada since 1864.
2013 – Boardwalk fire in Seaside Heights & Seaside Park, New Jersey, US. At least 19 buildings destroyed, 30 businesses lost, no major injuries.
2014 – Valparaíso wildfire devastated several areas of Valparaíso, Chile, destroying 2,500 homes and killing at least 15 people.
2015 – Tianjin Port fire and explosions killed at least 173 people, damaged 300 buildings and over 10,000 vehicles.
2016 – Fort McMurray wildfire in Alberta destroyed approximately 2,400 homes and buildings, and forced a complete evacuation.
2016 – The Gatlinburg Fire began as a wildfire in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and spread into the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, killing 14.
2017 – October 2017 Iberian wildfires. A fire started in Galicia, a province with high risk of wildfire and spread dangerously quick thanks to Hurricane Ophelia (2017) through Spain and Portugal.
2017 – In October, 17 separate fires raged across five counties in Northern California, causing extensive damage in Sonoma and Napa Counties. The fires burned 160,000 acres, destroyed 5,700 buildings, and killed 43. The two largest fires were the Tubbs Fire and Atlas Fire. The city of Santa Rosa, California sustained heavy damage, with over 2,800 buildings destroyed.
2018 – Kemerovo fire at the Winter Cherry complex mall in Kemerovo, Russia, killed 60 people. The blaze started on the top floor of the four-story complex, and people were seen jumping from windows to escape it.
2018 – Camp Fire. California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire left at least 81 people dead and torched more than 152,000 acres. The fire burned through the towns of Paradise and Concow and other populated areas including Magelia, CenterVille and Butte Creek Canyons, and destroyed the historic Honey Run Covered Bridge, one of the last three-tier bridges that stood in the United States.
2018 – Between July 23 and July 25 Greece experienced a national tragedy when a huge fire near Marathon in Attika killed 100 people. The inefficient fire service is said to have been a major factor for the disastrous outcome. The fire broke out in a nearby forest and quickly expanded to the surrounding towns.
2019 – Another Dhaka fire kills 78 people on February 20 in Churihatta, Chawkbazar area of old Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2020 – The Almeda Drive Fire in Jackson County, Oregon burned down the towns of Talent and Phoenix.
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