Summerland disaster

When

2 Aug 1973

Kind

Fire

Coordinates

54.17° N, 4.46° W

Description

Amusement centre fire tragedy

Deaths

50

Injured

80

1973 fire in Douglas, Isle of Man

The Summerland disaster occurred when a fire spread through the Summerland leisure centre in Douglas on the Isle of Man on the night of 2 August 1973. Fifty people were killed and 80 seriously injured. The scale of the fire has been compared to those seen during the Blitz.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un incendie au centre de loisirs Summerland, à Douglas, sur l’île de Man fait 51 tués et plus de 80 blessés graves.:”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page