• Thumbnail for Great Fire of New York
    The 1835 Great Fire of New York was one of three fires that rendered extensive damage to New York City in the 18th and 19th centuries. The fire occurred...
    11 KB (1,405 words) - 19:10, 31 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Great Fire of New York (1776)
    The Great Fire of New York was a devastating fire that burned through the night of September 20, 1776, and into the morning of September 21, on the West...
    12 KB (1,369 words) - 20:47, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for New York City Fire Department
    The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) is the full-service fire department of New York City,...
    101 KB (11,602 words) - 21:13, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great New York City Fire of 1845
    The Great New York City Fire of 1845 broke out on July 19, 1845, in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The fire started in a whale oil and candle manufacturing...
    13 KB (1,464 words) - 22:28, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Fire of London
    The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the...
    62 KB (8,110 words) - 11:21, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Chicago Fire
    The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people...
    49 KB (5,402 words) - 14:06, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great River, New York
    east of New York City on the South Shore of Long Island, adjoining the Great South Bay, protected from the Atlantic Ocean by Fire Island. Great River's...
    41 KB (5,134 words) - 01:10, 21 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Great Fire of Rome
    The Great Fire of Rome (Latin: incendium magnum Romae) began on the 18th of July 64 AD. The fire began in the merchant shops around Rome's chariot stadium...
    17 KB (2,021 words) - 20:32, 4 January 2024
  • (1807) Great Podil fire (1811) Great fire of Tirschenreuth (1814) Great Fire of New York (1835) Great fire of Hamburg (1842) Great New York City Fire of 1845...
    2 KB (354 words) - 18:48, 10 July 2023
  • New York City Fire Commissioner is the civilian administrator of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), appointed by the Mayor of the City of New York...
    35 KB (2,781 words) - 17:03, 28 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fire Island
    Fire Island is the large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the South Shore of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. Occasionally...
    52 KB (6,428 words) - 00:14, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Neck, New York
    Great Neck is a region on Long Island, New York, that covers a peninsula on the North Shore and includes nine villages, among them Great Neck, Great Neck...
    48 KB (4,834 words) - 18:06, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haunted Castle (Six Flags Great Adventure)
    Flags Great Adventure amusement park in Jackson Township, New Jersey. The original Haunted House was built prior to the fall "shoulder season" of 1978...
    40 KB (4,026 words) - 22:11, 27 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Great Fire of 1910
    The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region...
    20 KB (1,957 words) - 19:56, 30 January 2024
  • "Great Balls of Fire" is a 1957 popular song recorded by American rock and roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records and featured in the 1957 movie...
    9 KB (926 words) - 06:00, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fire Island Pines, New York
    Fire Island Pines (often referred to as The Pines, simply Pines, or FIP) is a hamlet in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States...
    29 KB (2,984 words) - 16:29, 26 April 2024
  • Great Balls of Fire! is a 1989 American biographical drama film directed by Jim McBride and starring Dennis Quaid as rockabilly pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis...
    15 KB (1,706 words) - 12:32, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for New York City Fire Department Bureau of EMS
    New York City Fire Department Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (FDNY EMS) is a division of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in charge of emergency...
    15 KB (1,884 words) - 12:08, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of disasters in New York City by death toll
    residential fires, traffic collisions and criminal homicide. Particularly for epidemics, years reflect when the event impacted New York City rather than...
    69 KB (4,956 words) - 23:34, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Burning of Smyrna
    The burning of Smyrna (Greek: Καταστροφή της Σμύρνης, "Smyrna Catastrophe"; Turkish: 1922 İzmir Yangını, "1922 İzmir Fire"; Armenian: Զմիւռնիոյ Մեծ Հրդեհ...
    73 KB (8,210 words) - 20:44, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Hinckley Fire
    The Great Hinckley Fire was a conflagration in the pine forests of the U.S. state of Minnesota in September 1894, which burned an area of at least 200...
    11 KB (1,217 words) - 22:59, 9 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest...
    63 KB (6,932 words) - 12:42, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Station nightclub fire
    version of Great White performed in any of the six New England states for over a decade following the fire. Russell's group made its first New England...
    72 KB (7,673 words) - 21:18, 22 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peshtigo fire
    people or more. Occurring on the same day as the more famous Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo fire has been largely forgotten, even though it killed five times...
    25 KB (2,715 words) - 19:31, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of New York fire departments
    This is a list of fire departments in New York. Rescue 1 (Borough Wide/Hell's Kitchen) Engine 1/Ladder 24/Division 3 (Midtown Manhattan) Engine 3/Ladder...
    123 KB (19,649 words) - 14:28, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for New York (state)
    New York, sometimes called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States. One of the Mid-Atlantic states, it borders the Atlantic Ocean...
    217 KB (20,375 words) - 16:27, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Albany, New York
    the U.S. state of New York and the seat of and the most populous city in the county of the same name. It is located on the west bank of the Hudson River...
    203 KB (18,597 words) - 01:21, 26 April 2024
  • Great fire of Hamburg, about a quarter of the inner city destroyed, 51 killed, and an estimated 20,000 homeless. 1845 – Great New York City Fire of 1845...
    58 KB (6,685 words) - 00:54, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for New York City
    May 5, 1897, By Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.) p. 37, ISBN 978-1-356-90825-7 New York City (NYC) The Great Fire of 1776 Archived December 29, 2023,...
    415 KB (37,988 words) - 21:01, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Fire of Toronto (1904)
    The Great Fire of Toronto of 1904 destroyed a large section of Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 19, 1904. It was the second such fire for the...
    9 KB (973 words) - 19:50, 1 February 2024