Man-Made Disasters

Facts + Statistics: Fire

Fire losses

Fire Losses, 2013-2022 (1)

 

9/11: The Tenth Anniversary

September 11, 2001, like the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, is a day that lives in infamy. But 9/11 was different in the sense that the attacks targeted not only a military site—the Pentagon building in Virginia—but an internationally recognized building which was the workplace for thousands of civilians, New York City’s World Trade Center. Nearly 3,000 people died on 9/11 in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania as a group of terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, and turned them into weapons of mass destruction.
 

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Centennial

The Triangle Shirt Waist Company Fire occurred on March 25, 1911, and resulted in the death of 146 workers.