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Dupont Plaza Hotel arson - Wikipedia  The Dupont Plaza Hotel arson was a fire that occurred at the Hotel Dupont Plaza in San Juan ... One week after the fire, the Governor of Puerto Rico, Rafael Hernndez ... Others leaped from the second-story casino through plate-glass windows to the .... Tragedy Revisited (George Davis) www.ccgtcc-ccn.com/DuPontPlaza...
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Puerto Rico Hotel Fire Claims at Least 50 Lives : Helicopters ...  The fire at the 21-story Dupont Plaza Hotel injured. ... January 01, 1987|Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico  Fire raged through a luxury hotel packed with ... The Dupont Plaza, the former Sheraton Hotel, is one of the largest tourist hotels in Puerto Rico. ... Hernandez Colon described the fire as a "horrible tragedy.
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Building and fire research at NBS/NIST 1975-2000 - NIST Page  Nov 22, 1989 ... tion and maintenance of constructed facilities amount to over 1/8 of the Gross ..... 1987. 63. 5.9. 1988. 64. 5.10. 1989. 66. 5.11. 1990. 68. 6. Building and Fire .... Dupont Plaza Hotel,Puerto Rico, 90 Dead, December 31, 1988. 178 .... Cooling Tower at Willow Island, WV ...... a two story residential house fire in.
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HOTEL FIRE TRACED TO BALLROOM AREA - NYTimes.com  Published: January 6, 1987 ... One theory that investigators are considering seriously, the Federal official said, ... Bruce Shulman, a director and vice president of the Dupont Plaza, said Sunday ... Staten Islander Amond Dead A Staten Island man, Diego (Dickie) Palemine, died in the San Juan fire, his family said Monday.
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travel law: avoid dangerous vacations 2015 - New York State ...  Jul 20, 2015 ... just passed a blasphemy law making it 1 25,000-euro ($37,000) ..... boat was traveling to the nearby island of Martinique). 9. ... talk about, but several headline-grabbing events in 2009 ... First Circuit: In re San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire .... 1987 )( tourist purchased tour of Jamaica ... WL 476360 ( 1st Cir.
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lafd, executive summary - first interstate bank building fire  May 4, 1988 ... The fire destroyed five floors of the First Interstate Bank Building, which some ..... The new corporate headquarters tower at 707 Wilshire Boulevard was ... The 858-foot high landmark is accentuated by gray solar and glass...
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Jeopary Questions page 2179 - "CAT" GOT YOUR TONGUE ...  An Indian tribe of the Carolinas, their language, or a grape first grown in the ... Washington volcano erupted on November 22, 1842; it blew its top again in 1980 ... 1980s LIT: Stevens works as a butler of Darlington Hall in this 1989 novel by...
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Proletarian Terrace: A Brief History of the New York Fire Escape as ...  Apr 10, 2012 ... fire had ravaged New York City seven times, most devastating in 1835 ... fire escape or a tenement, the familiar iron balconies and stairs ... 5 Sara Wermiel, No Exit: The Rise and Demise of the Outside Fire ... designate his apparatus fire escape. ... 11 Laws of New York, Chapter 470, Section 25 (1860).
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hotel busboy charged with arson in las vegas fire that killed eight  Feb 12, 1981 ... The Las Vegas police said tonight that they had arrested a 23-year-old ... last night, killing eight persons, injuring 198 others and causing an estimated $10 million in damage. ... An early morning blaze at the MGM Grand hotel last Nov. 21 claimed 84 lives and brought allegations by investigators of serious...
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Tales from the quake - Santa Cruz Sentinel  Oct 17, 2009 ... We gathered on our front lawn as many neighbors came to talk about what had just happened ... I had just left work to go watch the World Series when the quake hit. I heard on the radio that some of my friends were trapped in the roaster ... the nation happened on Oct. 21, 1989, at the Louden Nelson Center...
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - New York State Department of Labor  Mar 25, 2011 ... The Triangle shirtwaist factory fire killed 146 garment workers, most of ... immigrant women, on March 25, 1911, in New York City. ..... workrooms of the Triangle Waist Company. ..... minutes, but the carnage was devastating.
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In Philadelphia 30 Years Ago, an Eruption of Illness and Fear - The ...  Aug 1, 2006 ... Within a month, an infectious disease killed two of these men. ... the cause of their illness, which quickly became known as Legionnaires' disease. .... to Philadelphia where they had stayed at the same hotel and were together for ... At Christmastime in 1976, Dr. Joseph McDade, a C.D.C. laboratory scientist...
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THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE  THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE ... The 100th anniversary of the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, which killed 146 workers in a New York City garment ... the events of March 25, 1911, working conditions at the beginning of the 20th...
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Last Man Out on 9/11 Makes Shocking Disclosures | COTO Report  Aug 10, 2011 ... William Rodriguez, 9/11 Hero and the last man out of the Towers, with ... The first of these explosions, which occurred about 7-8 seconds before the ... But, just like the Twin Towers, it, too, it suddenly collapsed into its own footprint. ... A few weeks prior to the attacks, he was working in a stairwell on the 34th...
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MGM Grand fire - Wikipedia  The MGM Grand fire occurred on November 21, 1980 at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino (now Bally's Las Vegas) in Paradise, Nevada, USA. The fire killed 87 people, most through smoke inhalation. ... A total of 85 people were killed and 650 injured, including guests, employees and 14 firefighters. While the fire primarily...
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COLUMN ONE : A Hero's Fame Leads to Tragedy : Helping to pull ...  May 24, 1995 ... Seven years earlier, in what remains one of the top-rated news events in television ... shaft, freeing tiny Jessica McClure after 58 fretful hours in a West Texas well. ... 1987, the nation's attention was riveted on a far simpler drama--that of an 18-month-old girl pinned more than 20 feet down an old, dank well.
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A Pump Failure, A Claxon Alert, A Nuclear Crisis - The Washington ...  April 8, 1979 ... But on the morning of March 28, the 889-megawatt plant was going full blast. .... He shut down one pump 4 minutes 30 seconds into the accident and the second .... A turbine had tripped; partial loss of coolant; question of possible offsite release ... gathered by 8 a.m. and established a crisis repsonse center.
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US|Three Mile Island, and Nuclear Hopes and Fears - The New York ...  Apr 29, 2014 ... More than three decades after the accident at Three Mile Island cast a ... Disaster struck there in 1979, and when it did, too much information ... the worst catastrophe at a nuclear power plant, hardly reassured ... Previous Retro Report videos can be found here, and articles here. ... Site Index Navigation...
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WTC #7 What the...? - BF2S Forums - Jeff Minard  Sure Spit, do it here. .... buildings which CDI has held since October 1977 for its' demolition of the 28-story, 245-foot tall Biltmore Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ... Imagine that; just setting the explosives took 7 days. ... San Juan, Puerto Rico 08/16/1998. Record: The most buildings shot in a single implosion sequence.
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Montserrat: a modern-day Pompeii in the Caribbean | Fox News  Feb 20, 2014 ... For first-time visitors to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, some of the ... which erupted twice in the mid-1990s and changed life forever on the ... causing many residents of Montserrat's capital city, Plymouth, to flee. ... In 2005 Montserrat opened an $18.5 million airport to replace the one that was destroyed.
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Three Mile Island - 35 years on - News - The Ecologist  Mar 28, 2014 ... Unit 1 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station. ... Thirty-five years ago today the USA had its worst ever civilian nuclear accident with a ... Ironically, despite today's popular 'too much information' shorthand, TMI is a ... at Three Mile Island" - does not stand the test of fundamental medical scrutiny.