The Golden Age Nursing Home Fire took place in the pre-dawn hours of November 23, 1963 near Fitchville, Ohio, USA, killing 63 elderly people. Events 800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ohio ( is a Midwestern state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The disaster has largely been forgotten since it came in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but has recently been featured in the documentary "Fireland" by Justin Zimmerman. AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. President is a Title leaders of Organizations companies, Trade unions universities, and countries. John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29 1917&ndashNovember 22 1963 often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of
The blaze began so quickly that an attempt to call the local fire department proved fruitless when the telephone's wires were burned. A call from a truck driver, Henry Dahman, who was passing through the rural area between Cleveland and Toledo at approximately 4 a. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state This article is about the city in Ohio, USA. For Toledo Spain, see that article m. , quickly brought local officials, but strong winds helped to envelop the one-storey building in flames. Two other truck drivers also helped bring out residents from the facility.
The building's owner, Robert W. Pollack, indicated that many of the residents could have been saved had they not panicked. "Instead of going out the doors, they went back to their beds," said Pollack.
Three employees and 21 residents survived, but the remains of 22 people not claimed by family members were buried in services attended by 100 people on November 29. Events 1777 - San Jose California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe
The L-shaped, concrete block, one-story building had passed inspection the previous March. In late 1962, patients that were not considered mentally ill had been transferred there after being removed from the Cleveland State Hospital. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
The fire was the United States' deadliest blaze since the December 1958 Our Lady of the Angels School Fire at Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels School that killed 95 people. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Our Lady of the Angels School Fire broke out shortly before classes were to be dismissed on December 1, 1958, at the foot of a stairway in the Our Lady of Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Our Lady of the Angels School was a Roman Catholic elementary and middle school located in the Humboldt Park section of Chicago, Illinois, It also marked the second fire in less than a week involving the elderly, following the November 18 disaster that claimed 25 people at the Surfside Hotel in Atlantic City. Events 326 - The old St Peter's Basilica is consecrated 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull
External links
- Filmmaker sifts through ashes of tragedy, The Columbus Dispatch, March 28, 2006 (accessed May 28, 2006)
- Fire Protection: Infamous Fires, Part II, Mark Bromann in PM Engineer (magazine), February 10, 2006 (accessed May 28, 2006)
- A Description of Organizational Activities In the Fitchville, Ohio Nursing Home Fire, authored by Anderson, William A. The Columbus Dispatch is a daily Newspaper, based in Columbus Ohio, that serves the central portion of the state and Quarantelli, E. L. , August 3, 1964, for the Disaster Research Center, Office of Civil Defense, Office of the Secretary of the Army. Reference is to the archive at the University of Delaware Institutional Repository Library (accessed May 28, 2006)
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