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This article is a list of notable fires.
This is a partial list of fire due to mining: human-made structures to extract minerals, ores, rock, petroleum, natural gas, etc.
Date | Location | Dead/injured | Details | References |
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1884 to present | New Straitsville, Ohio | Coal mine fire ignited by striking miners | World's Greatest Mine Fire[2] | |
May 31, 1892 | Příbram, now in the Czech Republic, | 319/? | Fire in Marine iron mine | |
September 7, 1895 | Osceola Township, Houghton County, Michigan | 30/? | Osceola copper mine caught fire | [3] |
April 7, 1911 | Colliery, Throop, Pennsylvania, | 72/? | Fire at the Prince-Pancoast, leaving 72 dead by suffocation | [4] |
1915 to present | Luzerne County, Pennsylvania | Laurel Run mine fire ignited when a carbide lamp set fire to a timber support | ||
1956 | Belgium | 262/? | Bois du Cazier fire | killed 262 people from 12 nations|
1962 | Algeria | Devil's Cigarette Lighter fire in a gas field, lasted almost 6 months before doused with explosives | ||
1962 to present | Pennsylvania | Centralia Mine Fire, rendering the town uninhabitable | ||
1967 to present | Kukruse, Estonia | A continuously burning gangue mound at the Kukruse mine | ||
1971 to present | Derweze, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan | Darvaza gas crater fire in a natural gas field | ||
morning of May 2, 1972 | Kellogg, Idaho | 91/? | Fire broke out in the Sunshine Mine, on the morning of May 2; 91 workers died from smoke inhalation or carbon monoxide poisoning | |
September 16, 1986 | Kinross, Transvaal, South Africa | 177/235 | Kinross mining disaster fire in a gold mine owned by the General Mining Union Corporation | [5] |
July 6, 1988 | North Sea | 167/? | Piper Alpha oil platform disaster | |
1991 | State of Kuwait | Kuwaiti oil fires following the Gulf War | ||
2010 | Gulf of Mexico | Explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore drilling unit | ||
New Zealand | 29/? | Pike River Mine disaster in New Zealand; a series of three explosions in the mine was followed by a fourth which set fire to the coal. 29 miners and contractors perished. | ||
December 4, 2015 | Caspian Sea | 12+18 missing /? | Gunashli Platform No.10 fire broke out on the offshore oil and gas platform in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea; 12 confirmed deaths, 18 missing. |
Date | Location | Dead/injured | Details | References |
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October 8, 1871 | Michigan | >200/? | A series of fires across the state, the most severe of which was the Port Huron fire. The combined Michigan fires killed over 200 people and burned about 1.2 million acres. Occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire. | The Great Michigan Fire |
October 8, 1871 | Wisconsin | 1,500-2,500/? | Deadliest wildfire in world history. Death toll can only be estimated because entire towns with all town records were incinerated. Burned over 1.2 million acres. Occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires. | Peshtigo Fire |
1910 | North Idaho and Western Montana | 87/? | The largest Fire in U.S. history burned an area the size of Connecticut (3,000,000 acres [12,000 km2]), killing 87 people, including 78 firefighters | Great Fire of 1910[6] |
1911 | Ontario | 73-200/? | Great Porcupine Fire | |
July 29, 1916 | 223/? | Six towns destroyed, two more damaged | Matheson Fire | |
October 12, 1918 | Minnesota | 453/? | 1918 Cloquet Fire | |
1921 | 35/? | 1921 Mari wildfires | ||
1922 | Northern Ontario | Several towns destroyed including 90% of the city of Haileybury, Ontario | Great Fire of 1922 |