| Top 10 Most Catastrophic Multiple-Death Fires, 2014 (1) |
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| Rank |
Month |
State |
Type of facility |
Deaths |
| 1 |
January |
Kentucky |
Single-family home |
9 |
| 2 |
March |
New York |
Two five-story mixed-occupancy buildings |
8 |
| 3 |
April |
California |
Three-vehicle (car, bus, truck tractor) interstate crash |
8 |
| 4 |
July |
Massachusetts |
Three-story mixed-use building |
7 |
| 5 |
February |
Indiana |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 6 |
May |
Massachusetts |
Two-engine passenger jet on airport runway |
6 |
| 7 |
June |
New Jersey |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 8 |
August |
North Carolina |
Manufactured home |
6 |
| 9 |
October |
Pennsylvania |
Single-family home |
6 |
| 10 |
November |
Maine |
Three-story rooming house |
6 |
(1) Fires that kill five or more people in residential property, or three or more people in nonhome or nonstructural property.
Source: Based on date from Catastrophic Multiple-death fires in 2014 by Stephen G. Badger, ©National Fire Protection Association. www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics. |
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