| Top Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires and Explosions, 2019 (1) |
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| Rank (2) |
Month |
State |
Type of facility |
Deaths |
| 1 |
September |
California |
Dive boat |
34 |
| 2 |
October |
Connecticut |
Airplane crash and fire |
7 |
| 3 |
May |
New York |
Apartment building |
6 |
| 3 |
June |
Wisconsin |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 3 |
December |
Nevada |
Apartment building |
6 |
| 4 |
February |
California |
Aircraft in single-family home |
5 |
| 4 |
February |
New York |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 4 |
April |
Illinois |
Single-family home |
5 |
| 4 |
August |
Pennsylvania |
Day care |
5 |
| 4 |
November |
Minnesota |
Apartment building |
5 |
| 4 |
December |
Alabama |
Single-family home |
5 |
(1) Fires or explosions that kill five or more people in residential property, or three or more people in nonhome or nonstructural property.
(2) Fires with the same number of deaths receive the same rank.
Source: National Fire Protection Association. www.nfpa.org. |
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