Project Roll Call

Twelve FDNY firefighters died as a result of the 23rd Street fire on October 17, 1966.

The twelve Michigan firefighters died as a result of the Yore Opera House fire on September 6, 1896.

The Austin Fire Department’s first line-of-duty death occurred on August 17, 1917, over a year after the Kreisle Building fire.

One of Chicago’s deadliest fires erupted in the Cold Storage Building at the World’s Fair on July 10, 1893, claiming the lives of thirteen firefighters and four civilians.

The Hotel Vendome Fire claimed the lives of nine Boston firefighters and injured eight others on June 17, 1972.

Four Philadelphia firefighters lost their lives at a 4-alarm fire at Barson’s Deli on May 16, 1976.

Nine Milwaukee firefighters died in a collapse at the Davidson Theatre Fire on April 9, 1894.

Five Paterson firefighters died in a wall collapse at a 4-alarm fire at the Quackenbush Warehouse on March 12,1938.

Two New Haven firefighters who were responding to a reported hotel fire, died in an apparatus crash on February 14 , 1959.

Three firefighters from the Cranston Heights Fire Company died after a Wilmington apparatus crash on January 15, 1926.

Twenty-three Chicago and Morris & Company firefighters were killed in the Chicago Union Stockyards Fire on December 22, 1910.

On November 1, 1966, ten El Cariso Hotshots were killed when the Santa Ana winds suddenly changed direction, while they were working a wildfire in Pacoima Canyon, in the Angeles National Forest. Two more hotshots succumbed to their injuries days later, and nineteen others sustained critical burn injuries.