L'Innovation Department Store fire

When

22 May 1967

Kind

Fire

Coordinates

50.85° N, 4.36° E

Description

Fire incident in Brussels

Deaths

251

Injured

62

1967 fire in a department store in Brussels, Belgium

The L'Innovation fire was a fire that took place at the À L'Innovation department store on the Rue Neuve/Nieuwstraat in central Brussels, Belgium, on 22 May 1967. More than 150 firefighters were mobilised to fight it, 251 people were killed, 62 injured, and the department store itself, the work of the Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta, was destroyed.

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