Today in Fire History 8/13

8/13/2011 Jackson, MS a 28-year-old woman and her four children, ages two, three, five and seven-years-old, were killed in an apartment fire. –

8/12/2009 Mattawa, WA near Spokane, a mother and her two young children were killed in a home fire.

8/13/1945 Detroit, MI a fire in a box factory at Grand River Avenue and Fifteenth Street killed fourteen and injured fifty-two. “The blaze broke out as the 180 employees, mostly women, were in the midst of a rest period and were listening to a juke box. Apparently disbelieving a shout of fire from the first floor of the two-story factory building, the workers continued to listen to the blaring of the mechanical player until flames began licking the stairway.”  –

8/13/1925 Goliad, TX five buildings in the Courthouse Square were destroyed by fire. The fire started in the cleaning and pressing shop when a boiler exploded –

8/13/1909 Milton, DE conflagration: almost the entire town was destroyed by fire –

8/13/1904 a wildfire in Camborne, BC caused the evacuation of several prospectors –

8/13/1886 a wildfire destroyed the logging community in Brown County, WI –

8/13/1885 the powder storehouse in Silver City, NM exploded. “The building stood on a hill and was struck by lightning.”  –

8/13/1858 Alton, IL a fire at the penitentiary destroyed several buildings about 8:00 p.m. that started in one of the workshops, in the yard of the State prison. “Two of the workshops, the dining hall, chapel, hospital, kitchen and two or three other small buildings were destroyed.” –

8/13/1953 the National Safety Council incorporated by Congress –

8/13/1950 President Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai –

August 13th is International Left-Hander's Day.