Welcome to the Fire History Website

Recently a Volunteer came to me asking for assistance with a fire history paper for his class in Fire Technology. He had no idea what to write about. He had considered the 9/11 attacks, The Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island, the cold storage warehouse in Mass., and a generalized major event paper. My recommendation was the school fire at Our Lady of Angels. It is a historic event that forever changed the face of not only firefighting but also every day life for all Americans. The over-crowding of classrooms and the wide range of fire hazards created the perfect conditions for this terrible fire. That conversation planted the seed for this website. I thought that most of our younger people that haven't been educated on fire history can use another resource for researching fire history. This is the first in a series of posts that will provide details on major disasters that forged the molds by which fire service is delivered today.