A single-vehicle accident occurred on Route 225 in Jackson Township on February 13, 2007. The driver of a vehicle was injured when she lost control of the vehicle and struck a house.
On February 13, 2008, an accident occurred in East Hanover Township, Dauphin County, PA, near Grantville, in which a propane truck hit a telephone pole, rolled on to its side, and caught fire. A total of 84 fire apparatus from Fire Companies in Dauphin, Lebanon, Lancaster, Cumberland, and Schuylkill counties were dispatched to the scene to assist over the course of the lengthy incident. Apparatus assisting from upper Dauphin County, included Fisherville's Takner 216, Millersburg's Tanker 20, Wiconisco's Tanker 23, and Williamstown's Tanker 24. Master streams were used to cool the tanker while the propane burned. Our local area tankers shuttled numerous loads of water to the scene from Memorial Lake in Lebanon County before returning home the following day.
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San Francisco City Hall Dome Fire - San Francisco, CA
A fire occurred at the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity at California University in California, Pennsylvania on February 13, 1992. One student died in the fire.
A fire occurred during a show at the Statuto Cinema in Turin, Italy, on Sunday, February 13, 1983. The fire began on the ground floor of the two-story cinema and quickly set several seats ablaze. The seats had plastic covers and produced toxic smoke when they burned. The crowd panicked and ran toward the exits, causing a stampede in which several people were crushed to death. Firefighters responded quickly, but found that the rear emergency exits were locked. They were forced open the doors and found the bodies of several people who had died while trying to escape. The firefighters were able to get the fire under control before it spread to the upper floor and balcony. On the first level, they found 37 people who had been killed by burns, smoke inhalation or injuries from the stampede. On the second level, they found another 37 people, many in a bathroom, who had perished from smoke inhalation. Almost everyone who was on the second floor when the fire started had died.
On February 13, 1975, in New York City, a fire occurred in the World Trade Center North Tower, which spread over nearly half of the eleventh floor. The fire also spread to other floors through openings in the floor slabs which were used to carry phone wires. The fires on other floors were extinguished almost immediately, and the main fire was put out in a few hours. Fireproofing protected the steel from melting and there was no structural damage to the tower. This event led to the installation of a sprinkler system in both towers. Firefighters claim that had the sprinklers been installed when the tower was built, the fire probably would not have spread as much as it did. Other than the damage caused by the fire, a few floors below suffered water damage from the extinguishment activities above.
On the morning of February 13, 1905, fire destroyed the Battle House, Mobile, Alabama's, historic hotel. The fire also destroyed the Commercial Hotel and several adjoining buildings, including the Graham Printing Company. There was no loss of life, however the fire chief and a fireman were injured by falling bricks. The loss was about $400,000.
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Teatro San Carlo Fire - Naples, Italy
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