Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse fire

When

3 Dec 1999

Kind

Fire

Coordinates

42.27° N, 71.80° W

Description

Massachusetts abandoned building fatal fire (1999)

Deaths

6

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Fatal Massachusetts abandoned building fire (1999)

The Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire began on December 3, 1999, in a 93-year-old abandoned building at 266 Franklin Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. The fire was started accidentally some time between 4:30–5:45 pm by two homeless people who were squatting in the building and had knocked over a candle. They left the scene without reporting the fire.

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