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.

Notable fires

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Building	Height (m)	City	Country	Date	Death(s)	Notes
Central Tower	91 m [1]	San Francisco	United States	April 18, 1906	?	Burned in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Merchants Exchange Building	69 m [2]
Old Chronicle Building	95 m [3]
Mutual Bank Building
Asch Building	48 m [4]	New York City		1911-03-25 March 25, 1911	146	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
The Sherry-Netherland	171 m [5]			April 12, 1927	0	Occurred during construction
Empire State Building	381 m [6]			July 28, 1945	14	Plane crash due to thick fog
40 Wall Street	283 m [7]			May 20, 1946	5	Plane crash
La Salle Hotel		Chicago		June 5, 1946	61	Likely an electrical fire
Winecoff Hotel	59 m [8]	Atlanta		December 7, 1946	119	Deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history
Ronan Point	64 m [9]	London	United Kingdom	May 16, 1968	4	Gas explosion caused partial collapse of the highrise.
1 New York Plaza	192 m [10]	New York City	United States	August 5, 1970	2	Sparked from a faulty computer connection [11]
Taeyongak Hotel	72.6 m	Seoul	South Korea	December 25, 1971	163	Daeyeonggak Hotel fire, deadliest hotel fire in history
Andraus Building	115 m [12]	São Paulo	Brazil	February 24, 1972	16	Sparked from an electrical overload [13]
Rault Tower		New Orleans	United States	November 29, 1972	6	Suspected arson [14]
Avianca Building	161 m	Bogotá	Colombia	July 23, 1973	4	Sparked on the 14th floor
City-Haus	142 m	Frankfurt	West Germany	February 1, 1974	0	Occurred during construction
Joelma Building	82.5 m	São Paulo	Brazil	February 1, 1974	184	179–189, Joelma fire
1 World Trade Center	417 m	New York City	United States	February 13, 1975	0	Arson [15]
Campbell Shopping Complex	66 m	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	April 8, 1976	1	Campbell Shopping Complex fire
Bank Bumiputra		Kuala Lumpur		November 4, 1980	?
MGM Grand Hotel	85.8 m	Las Vegas	United States	November 21, 1980	84	MGM Grand fire
Las Vegas Hilton	114 m	Las Vegas		February 10, 1981	8	Arson
Torre Santa María		Santiago	Chile	March 21, 1981	11	Occurred when carpet glue ignited during carpet installation. [16]
Al Rasheed Hotel	59.4 m	Baghdad	Iraq	July 21, 1982	1	Plane crash-Suicide by F-4 Phantom during Iran-Iraq War
Northwestern National Bank	52.8 m	Minneapolis	United States	November 25, 1982	0	Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day fire
KOMTAR	248.7 m	Penang	Malaysia	January 23, 1983	0	Likely occurred due to welding sparks [17]
Prudential Tower	276 m	Boston	United States	January 2, 1983	0	A nine-alarm fire in the building spread because of the lack of a sprinkler system. [18] [19]
Dupont Plaza Hotel	74 m	Condado	Puerto Rico	December 31, 1986	97	Dupont Plaza Hotel arson
Schomburg Plaza		New York City	United States	March 22, 1987	7	Ignited from the plaza's trash compactor room [20]
Hotel International	85 m	Zurich	Switzerland	February 14, 1988	6	Deadliest high-rise fire in Swiss history
First Interstate Tower	261.52 m	Los Angeles	United States	May 4, 1988	1	First Interstate Tower fire
Peachtree 25th Building	33 m	Atlanta		June 30, 1989	5	Peachtree 25th Building fire
One Meridian Plaza	150 m	Philadelphia		February 23, 1991	3	Occurred when rags ignited, fire spread uncontrollably after all fire protection systems failed. [21] Later torn down.
UNITIC Twin Towers	105.5 m	Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	May 28, 1992	*	Burned after being repeatedly hit by Serbian incendiary tank shells.
Executive Council Building	69.3 m			May 28, 1992	*	Burned after being repeatedly hit by Serbian incendiary tank shells.
Groeneveen and Kruitberg	33 m	Amsterdam	Netherlands	October 4, 1992	43	El Al Flight 1862 plane crash, Partial collapse
1 World Trade Center	417 m	New York City	United States	February 26, 1993	6	Bombing which also resulted in 1,042 smoke related injuries
Stratosphere Tower	350.2 m	Las Vegas		August 30, 1993	0	Occurred during construction
White House (Moscow)	119 m	Moscow	Russia	October 8, 1993	147	Caught fire from tank shelling during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
Hotel Olympik	73 m	Prague	Czech Republic	May 25, 1995	8	Occurred on the 11th floor within a janitor's closet [22]
Tower 42	183 m	London	United Kingdom	January 17, 1996	0	Occurred during refurbishment
Garley Building	52.8 m	Hong Kong	British Hong Kong	November 20, 1996	41	1996 Garley Building fire
Ušće Tower	115 m	Belgrade	Serbia and Montenegro	April 21, 1999	0	Struck by NATO air strikes during the Kosovo War setting the upper floors on fire.
Immigration Tower	181 m	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	August 2, 2000	2	Arson
Ostankino Tower	540.1 m	Moscow	Russia	August 27, 2000	3	Tallest structure in Europe
1 and 2 World Trade Center	417 m / 415.1 m	New York City	United States	September 11, 2001	2,312	Part of the September 11 attacks. One hijacked airliner was deliberately flown into each of the skyscrapers. Both towers experienced a total structural failure within two hours of the plane impacts. Tallest buildings to ever be destroyed.
7 World Trade Center	190 m				0	Caused by debris from the collapse of Building 1 (North Tower) of the World Trade Center, resulting in this building also collapsing.
90 West Street	98.76 m				2	Caused by debris from the collapse of Building 2 (South Tower) of the World Trade Center
130 Cedar Street	50 m				0	Caused by debris from the collapse of Building 2 (South Tower) of the World Trade Center
Pirelli Tower	127 m	Milan	Italy	April 18, 2002	3	Plane crash
Cook County Administration Building		Chicago	United States	October 17, 2003	6	Seven other seriously injured, fire thought to have been arson [23] [24]
Al Rasheed Hotel	59.4 m	Baghdad	Iraq	December 26, 2003	1	Twenty-eight 68 mm and 85 mm Katyusha rockets were fired at and struck the hotel
Parque Central Complex east tower	255 m	Caracas	Venezuela	October 17, 2004	0	Damage to 34th-44th floors
LaSalle National Bank Building	163.1 m	Chicago	United States	December 7, 2004	0	25 injured [25]
Harrow Court	56.1 m	Hertfordshire	United Kingdom	February 2, 2005	3	Harrow Court fire
Windsor Tower	106 m	Madrid	Spain	February 12, 2005	0	Partially collapsed; subsequently demolished
Tohid Town Residential	33 m	Tehran	Iran	December 6, 2005	106	Plane crash: 2005 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash
Transport Tower	112.2 m	Astana	Kazakhstan	May 30, 2006	0	Fire destroyed upper floors of 34-story government building
Belaire Apartments	156 m	New York City	United States	October 11, 2006	2	Plane crash
Fortune Tower		Dubai	United Arab Emirates	January 18, 2007	4	Occurred during construction, 57 injured
Shanghai World Financial Center	494.3 m	Shanghai	China	August 14, 2007	0	Occurred on 40th floor during construction
Deutsche Bank Building	157.6 m	New York City	United States	August 18, 2007	2	Occurred during dismantling, demolished due to damage from the September 11 attacks
The Water Club	125.4 m	Atlantic City		September 23, 2007	0	Occurred during construction. [26]
Monte Carlo Resort and Casino	110 m	Las Vegas		January 25, 2008	0	Fire affecting top six floors
TU Delft Faculteitsgebouw Bouwkunde	56 m	Delft	The Netherlands	April 13, 2008	0	A broken water pipe on the 8th floor caused a short circuit in a coffee machine a floor below, resulting in a fire. [27] The building was demolished afterwards.
Abraj Al Bait Towers	601 m	Mecca	Saudi Arabia	October 28, 2008	0	Occurred during construction; fire consumed nine floors
Beijing Television Cultural Center	159 m	Beijing	China	February 9, 2009	1	Beijing Television Cultural Center fire
Bashundhara City Tower	62.7 m	Dhaka	Bangladesh	March 13, 2009	4
Abraj Al Bait Towers		Mecca	Saudi Arabia	May 1, 2009	0	Occurred during construction
Lakanal House	46.2 m	London	United Kingdom	July 3, 2009	6	Lakanal House fire
Rabobank Bestuurscentrum	105 m	Utrecht	Netherlands	June 27, 2010	0	Occurred on the 25th and 26th floor during the construction. The exact cause of the fire has never been identified. [28]
Wooshin Golden Suites		Busan	South Korea	September 1, 2010	0	Wooshin Golden Suites fire
Dijon residential complex	79.2 m	Dijon	France	October 14, 2010	7	[29] [30]
Unnamed high-rise apartment block	85 m	Shanghai	China	November 15, 2010	58	Occurred during renovation; 2010 Shanghai fire
Dynasty Wanxin building complex Towers A and B (Tower C was unaffected)		Shenyang		February 3, 2011	0	Started from fireworks during Chinese New Year Celebrations. [31]
EVN Headquarters Tower 1	147 m	Hanoi	Vietnam	December 16, 2011	0	Fire occurred during construction, 11 workers injured. [32]
Uncompleted high rise block		Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	January 18, 2012	0	[33]
Fico Place		Bangkok	Thailand	March 3, 2012	0	Two firemen injured [34]
Federation Tower (East Tower)	450 m	Moscow	Russia	April 2, 2012	0	Occurred while the building was under construction
Al Tayer Tower		Sharjah	United Arab Emirates	April 28, 2012	0	[35]
Polat Tower Residence	138.6 m	Istanbul	Turkey	July 17, 2012	0	[36]
Tamweel Tower	160 m	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	November 18, 2012	0	[37]
Oko Tower 1	354.1 m	Moscow	Russia	January 25, 2013	0	Fire occurred on 24th floor during construction, one worker was injured. [38]
Torre Ejecutiva Pemex Tower	214 m	Mexico City	Mexico	January 31, 2013	33	Gas explosion affecting the main building's 14-story annex Torre Ejecutiva Pemex explosion
Grozny-City Towers	150 m	Grozny	Russia	April 3, 2013	0	[ citation needed ]
Guangzhou Jianye Building Fire		Guangzhou	China	April 3, 2013	0	[39]
The Strand		New York City	United States	January 5, 2014	1	[40]
One57	306 m	New York City	United States	March 14, 2014	0	Fire broke out in the loading dock, then spread to the courtyard and a neighboring property. [41]
Mermoz Tower	52.8 m	Roubaix	France	May 14, 2012	0	[42]
Lotus Park building		Mumbai	India	July 18, 2014	1	[43]
Lacrosse Apartments		Melbourne	Australia	November 25, 2014	0	Fire started on an 8th floor balcony and rapidly spread up the facade cladding. [44]
The Wedgwood	30 m	Castle Hills	United States	December 28, 2014	5	The fire occurred on one wing of the third floor causing extensive smoke damage. [45] [46]
The Marina Torch	336.8 m	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	February 21, 2015	0	At least 7 people were injured.
Wisma Kosgoro		Jakarta	Indonesia	March 10, 2015	0	Fire destroyed floors 16–20. [47]
Franklin Tower, 100-101 Terr. Boieldieu, Tower A	120 m	Puteaux, Paris	France	March 17, 2015	0	Unstated cause, ignition on 40th flr in technical room, contained by 30 firefighters via internal wet column (a pressurized vertical pipe). [48] [49]
Unnamed Highrise		Baku	Azerbaijan	May 19, 2015	16	See 2015 Baku residence building fire
Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas	184 m	Las Vegas	United States	July 25, 2015	0	Fire occurred on the pool deck fueled by cabanas and artificial trees; two people were treated for smoke inhalation. [50]
Unnamed Residential Tower		Sharjah	United Arab Emirates	October 1, 2015	0	Fire burned building facade, 19 treated for smoke inhalation. [51]
John Hancock Center	457 m	Chicago	United States	November 21, 2015	0	A two-alarm fire broke out on the 50th floor. Five injured. [52]
The Address Downtown Dubai	306.2 m	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	December 31, 2015	1	Occurred on New Year's Eve, 14 injured. [53]
Tour Anvers (in Les Olympiades residential complex)	104 m	Paris	France	January 12, 2016	1	16th of 31 flrs, contained to apt without spreading, 1 killed, 31-year-old woman with muscle disability. [54] [55]
An unidentified tower on avenue Romain-Rolland	33 m	Saint-Denis	France	January 13, 2016	1	[56] [57]
158 bd Davout	21m	Paris 20e	France	June 1, 2016	1	3rd through 7th of 7 flrs, 8 injured. [58]
Sulafa Tower	288 m	Dubai	UAE	July 20, 2016	0
Plasco Building	42 m	Tehran	Iran	January 19, 2017	21	The 17-story building collapsed after a fire started on the ninth floor. Seventy injured. [59]
Grenfell Tower	79.2 m	London	United Kingdom	June 14, 2017	72	The 24-storey tower block fire spread from the second floor to the top of the building. [60] See Grenfell Tower fire
Pamchal Chitgar Building	66 m	Tehran	Iran	June 14, 2017	0	The residential 20-storey tower – four injured
Marco Polo Apartments	118.8 m	Honolulu	United States	July 14, 2017	3	Blaze started on the 26th floor of the 36-story apartments. Fire quickly spread to three more floors, making it a 5-alarm fire. This is the deadliest high-rise fire in Hawaii's history.
Rotana Hotel Building	66 m	Mashhad	Iran	July 22, 2017	0	Under construction 20-storey hotel
The Marina Torch	336.8 m	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	August 4, 2017	0
Trump Tower	202 m	New York City	United States	April 7, 2018	1	6 firefighters injured
Almas Tower	360 m	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	April 30, 2018	0
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Baku)	108.9 m	Baku	Azerbaijan	April 30, 2018	0	Involved two separate fires the same day
Wilton Paes de Almeida Building	79.2 m	São Paulo	Brazil	April 30, 2018	8	7–9, building collapsed shortly after blaze
Paramis Building	69.3 m	Tehran	Iran	July 22, 2018	0	21-storey residential building
Bank of Lisbon building	108 m	Johannesburg	South Africa	September 6, 2018	3	Building demolished/Imploded in November 24, 2019
FR Tower		Dhaka	Bangladesh	March 28, 2019	25	FR Tower fire
AXA Equitable Center	229.3 m	New York City	United States	June 10, 2019	1	2019 New York City helicopter crash
Unnamed Highrise	47.9 m	Prešov	Slovakia	December 6, 2019	8	Natural gas explosion, 40 injuries [61]
Abbco Tower		United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates	May 5, 2020	1	25 injuries, likely started by a discarded cigarette or shisha coals [62]
Tower block at 1158 Nerudova street	42.9 m	Czech Republic	Czech Republic	August 8, 2020	11	Bohumín arson attack
Ulsan Samhwan Art Nouveau apartment building	108.9 m	South Korea	South Korea	October 9, 2020	0	92 residents and 1 firefighter injured. Ulsan Samhwan Art Nouveau Fire  [ ko ] [63]
Helsinki Tower, 50 rue du Disque	~100 m	Paris	France	August 13, 2021	1	18th of 33 flrs, apt possibly linked to Diogenes syndrome (hoarding), spread prevented via compartmentation, contained after 2 hrs, ~70 firefighters, 2 hoses, 1 killed (carbonized body), 4 injured (2 were firefighters with heatstroke). [64]
Torre dei Moro	60 m	Milan	Italy	August 29, 2021	0	Fire event similar to the Grenfell Tower disaster [65]
Cheng Chung Cheng Building		Kaohsiung	Taiwan	October 14, 2021	46	2021 Kaohsiung tower fire
World Trade Centre Hong Kong		Hong Kong	Hong Kong	December 15, 2021	0	13 injured, over 300 trapped on roof [66] [67] [68]
Twin Parks North West, Site 4		New York City	United States	January 9, 2022	17	2022 Bronx apartment fire
Lotus Garden China Telecom Building	218 m	Changsha, Hunan	China	September 16, 2022	0	(fire extinguished. Under investigation.)
The Centaurus	110 m	Islamabad	Pakistan	October 9, 2022	0	2022 The Centaurus Mall Fire Incident [69]
RiverCourt	108.1 m	New York City	United States	November 5, 2022	0
8 Boulevard Walk	123 m	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	November 7, 2022	0
Jixiangyuan community	~60 m (21 floors)	Ürümqi	China	November 26, 2022	11	2022 Ürümqi fire
The Kimpton	175 m	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	March 2, 2023	0	Occurred during construction
Unnamed Apartment Block		Hanoi	Vietnam	September 12, 2023	56	2023 Hanoi building fire
Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower	65.72 m	Khartoum	Sudan	September 17, 2023	?	Occurred during War in Sudan (2023)
Unnamed Highrise		València	Spain	February 22, 2024	10	2024 València residential complex fire
Unnamed Highrise		Nanjing	China	February 23, 2024	15	2024 Nanjing building fire
Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall		Dhaka	Bangladesh	February 29, 2024	46	2024 Dhaka Bailey Road fire
		Tver	Russia	March 14, 2024	0	Occurred during construction
Botanik Torre Flora		Recife	Brazil	March 28, 2024	0	Occurred during construction
Asia of Ivry (fr, Asie d'Ivry)	21 m	Paris	France	September 17, 2024	0	Wholesaler Chinese Pastry, 50 Av. de la Prte d'Ivry [70] , 7th flr (attic)
The 12th District Town Hall	36 m	Paris	France	January 27, 2025	0	Top flrs, possible electrical short in attic, 150 firefighters saved main structure, tower stabilized after collapse risk. [71]
Grand Kartal Hotel		Bolu	Turkey	January 21, 2025	79	2025 Kartalkaya hotel fire
Marina Pinnacle	280 m	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	June 13, 2025	0	[72]
18 Jardin de Guillaume Bouzignac/18 Mail Gustave Flaubert	60 m	Tours, Indre-et-Loire	France	October 10, 2025	1	[73]
Tuzla Retirement Home		Tuzla	Bosnia and Herzegovina	November 4, 2025	17	Tuzla retirement home fire
Vjesnik Building		Zagreb	Croatia	November 17, 2025	0	Fire started at the 15th floor by high school students. The building was vacant at the time of the fire, and will be demolished. [74]
Wang Fuk Court [75]	93-108.5 m	Tai Po	Hong Kong	November 26, 2025	160 [76] [77]	Wang Fuk Court fire Deadliest apartment fire in the world in history
11 Thorncliffe Park Drive		Toronto	Canada	November 27, 2025	0	Stubborn 5-alarm fire burning inside walls and electrical conduit. All 408 units evacuated. [78] [79]
Total (minus deaths caused by September 11)					2072

• During the violent civil war the building was likley vacated before the shelling that started the fires.

Gallery

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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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  2 World Trade Center (South Tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175, with its twin already burning, in 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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  Fire at the Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, Hong Kong in 2025.

See also

• List of building or structure fires
• Skyscraper
• Tower block
• Firefighting
• Fire escape
• List of high-rise facade fires
• The Towering Inferno (film)

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• "Bank of Lisbon building, site of deadly Joburg fire, to come down", The Citizen, Eric Naki, August 29, 2019
• "Madrid skyscraper faces collapse", BBC NEWS, February 13, 2005
• "Blaze consumes Caracas skyscraper", BBC NEWS, October 18, 2004
• "Welcome to High Rise Fire-fighting", highrisefirefighting.co.uk
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