List of fires in high-rise buildings

The following is a list of fires in high-rise buildings. A skyscraper fire or high-rise fire is a class of structural fire specific to tall buildings. Skyscraper fires are technically challenging for fire departments: they require unusually high degrees of organization and cooperation between participating firefighting units to contain and extinguish. Skyscraper fires are often multiple-alarm fires.

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  Central Tower burns after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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  Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911
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  Daeyeonggak Hotel fire in 1971
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  Dupont Plaza Hotel arson in 1986
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  Aftermath of the El Al Flight 1862 crash in 1992
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  Aftermath of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
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  UNITIC Twin Skyscrapers after the Siege of Sarajevo in 1992
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  Executive Council Building during the Siege of Sarajevo in 1992
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  Ostankino Tower fire in 2000
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  The north face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175 in the September 11 attacks
• A video showing the United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the South Tower of the World Trade Center and it's ensuring fire on both World Trade Center towers during the September 11 attacks
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  7 World Trade Center burns after the collapse of the Twin Towers
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  Windsor Tower after the 2005 fire
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  Aftermath of the 2006 New York City plane crash
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  Deutsche Bank Building fire in 2007
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  Aftermath of the Harrow Court fire in 2007
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  Beijing Television Cultural Center fire in 2009
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  Wooshin Golden Suites fire in 2010
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  2010 Shanghai fire
• A video showing 2010 Shanghai fire
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  Aftermath of the Torre Ejecutiva Pemex explosion in 2013
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  Fire at One57 in 2014.
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  Plasco Building on fire prior to collapse in 2017.
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  Grenfell Tower in the early morning of 14 June 2017.
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  Aftermath of the Bohumín arson attack in 2020.
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  Aftermath of gas explosion in Prešov in 2019.
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  Aftermath of the 2021 Kaohsiung tower fire
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  2022 Islamabad building fire
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  Aftermath of the 2024 València residential complex fire.

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• Firefighting
• Fire escape
• List of high-rise facade fires
• The Towering Inferno (film)

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