List of fires in high-rise buildings

The following is a list of fires in high-rise buildings. A skyscraper fire or high-rise fire is a class of structural fire specific to tall buildings. Skyscraper fires are technically challenging for fire departments: they require unusually high degrees of organization and cooperation between participating firefighting units to contain and extinguish. Skyscraper fires are often multiple-alarm fires.

Notable fires

• During the violent civil war the building was likely vacated before the shelling that started the fires.

Gallery

See also

• List of building or structure fires
• Skyscraper
• Tower block
• Firefighting
• Fire escape
• List of high-rise facade fires
• The Towering Inferno (film)

References

External links

• "Bank of Lisbon building, site of deadly Joburg fire, to come down", The Citizen, Eric Naki, August 29, 2019
• "Madrid skyscraper faces collapse", BBC NEWS, February 13, 2005
• "Blaze consumes Caracas skyscraper", BBC NEWS, October 18, 2004
• "Welcome to High Rise Fire-fighting", highrisefirefighting.co.uk
• "Bank of Lisbon Building Flattened in Johannesburg", YouTube, Voice of America, November 24, 2019