Star-Crossed Constellations

The January 1961 cover of Fire Engineering.

This week marks an anniversary of two 1960 tragedies that occurred in the same New York City borough within days of each other. Two jets, one enroute to LaGuardia Airport, the other to Idlewild (now Kennedy) Airport, collided in midair, killing passengers and at least one person on the ground on December 16. See the January 1961188金宝搏是正规吗cover and emergency response articleHERE.

The Feburary 1961 cover of Fire Engineering.

On December 19, a fire aboard the号”Constellationin the Brooklyn Navy Yard killed 5O workers and injured many more. See the article and an editorial comment on the impact of the tragedy in the same issueHERE.

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Arcadia Hotel Fire, 1913: “All Was Over in 10 Minutes”

1945: A Bomber Crashes into the Empire State Building

Port Chicago Explosion, 1944

Fire Guts Warehouse: ‘Not Enough Water’

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