Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire
Fatal Massachusetts abandoned building fire (1999)
Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire
The Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire began on December 3, 1999, in a 93-year-old abandoned building at 266 Franklin Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. The fire was started accidentally some time between 4:30–5:45 pm by two homeless people (Thomas Levesque and Julie Ann Barnes) who were squatting in the building and had knocked over a candle. They left the scene without reporting the fire. The 6-story building, previously used as a meat cold storage facility, had no windows above the ground floor and no fire detection or suppression systems. The fire, which started on the second story, burned undetected for 30–90 minutes. The structure was five blocks east of the Worcester central business district, near Union Station and adjacent to Interstate 290. An off-duty police officer called in the fire at 6:13 pm after noticing grey/white smoke coming from the roof of the building. At around the same time an off-duty firefighter from neighboring Auburn passed the building on I-290 and...
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