MGM Grand fire
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The MGM Grand fire occurred on Friday, November 21, 1980, at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The fire killed 85 people, most through smoke inhalation. The fire began from a refrigerated pastry display case in one of the restaurants, located on the first floor. Fire engulfed the resort's casino, and smoke travelled into the hotel tower.
Looking east as smoke rises from the property
Survivors were evacuated by helicopter
The original MGM tower, seen in 2008 as part of Bally's
Dupont Plaza Hotel arson
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On New Year's Eve, December 31, 1986, three disgruntled employees at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, intentionally set a fire. The employees were involved in a labor dispute with the owners. The fire killed between 96 and 98 people and injured 140 others. It is the most catastrophic hotel fire in Puerto Rican history and the second deadliest hotel fire in U.S. territory in history, after the Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta in 1946.
Dupont Plaza Rescue by Phyllis Gottschalk
The ATF brought an investigation truck, by air, to the scene
ATF agents sifting through the rubble of the Dupont Plaza Hotel