On April 13, 1910, a fire that started in the shops of the county jail in New Haven, Connecticut, killed six firefighters.
Many others - firefighters and at least one civilian - were burned or injured.
On the 100th Anniversary of the fire, the New Haven Register said the doomed firefighters were trapped by metal doors and barred windows.
A contemporary report in the Portsmouth Herald, a New Hampshire newspaper, described the jail shops as "wooden structure very old and rambling in design" and said flames "engulfed several buildings almost before the fire apparatus arrived."
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