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SUMMARY:Hotel Fire\, Boston\, MA\nHotel Vendome Fire (1972)
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DESCRIPTION:On June 17th\, 1972\, a typical routine day was unfolding for 
 the Jakes in the Boston Fire Department. At 14:35 hours\, Box 1571 was rec
 eived at Boston Fire Alarm Office. It would be the first of four alarms re
 quired to extinguish an intense fire at the former Hotel Vendome on Common
 wealth Avenue at Dartmouth Street\, City of Boston\, Massachusetts. It too
 k nearly three hours to contain the blaze. The four alarm fire required a 
 compliment of 16 engine companies\, 5 ladder companies\, 2 aerial towers a
 nd 1 heavy rescue company\, with all companies operating with a full compl
 ement of personnel staffing.\nFollowing extensive and strenuous suppressio
 n operations\, the BFD commenced routine overhaul operation. Then\, at 17:
 28 hours\, without warning\, all five floors of a 40 by 45 foot section so
 utheast corner of the building collapsed\, burying a ladder truck and 17 f
 irefighters beneath a two-story pile of brick\, mortar\, plaster\, wood an
 d debris.\nMore than any other event in the three hundred year history of 
 the Boston Fire Department\, the Vendome tragedy exemplifies the risk intr
 insic to the firefighting profession and the accompanying courage required
  in the performance of duty. Nine firefighters were killed on that day\, e
 ight more injured\; eight women widowed\, twenty-five children lost their 
 fathers\; a shocked city mourned before the sympathetic eyes of the entire
  nation.\nThe Hotel Vendome fire and the Nine Line-of-duty deaths\, two Co
 mpany Officers and seven firefighters
• Lieutenant THOMAS J. CARROLL\,
  E-32.
• Lieutenant JOHN E. HANBURY\, JR.\, L-13.
• Firefighter TH
 OMAS W. BECKWITH\, E-32.
• Firefighter JOSEPH E. BOUCHER\, JR.\, E-22.
 
• Firefighter CHARLES E. DOLAN\, L-13.
• Firefighter JOHN E. JAME
 SON\, E-22.
• Firefighter RICHARD B. MAGEE\, E-33.
• Firefighter P
 AUL J. MURPHY\, E-32.
• Firefighter JOSEPH P. SANIUK\, L-13.\nBuilt in
  1871 and massively expanded in 1881\, the Hotel Vendome was a luxury hote
 l located in Boston’s Back Bay\, just north of Copley Square. During the
  1960s\, the Vendome suffered four small fires. In 1971\, the year of the 
 original building’s centennial\, the Vendome was purchased. The new owne
 rs opened a restaurant called Cafe Vendome on the first floor\, and began 
 renovating the remaining hotel into condominiums and a shopping mall.\nAlt
 hough the cause of the original fire was not known\, the subsequent collap
 se was attributed to the failure of an overloaded seven-inch steel column 
 whose support had been weakened when a new duct had been cut beneath it\, 
 exacerbated by the extra weight of water used to fight the fire on the upp
 er floors.\nhttp://www.cityofboston.gov/fire/memorial/vendome_fire.asp\n\n
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