12 deadliest U.S. fires
POSTED: 09:14 AM PST Feb 15, 2012
UPDATED: 09:34 AM PDT May 01, 2013
Take a look at the 12 deadliest fires in U.S. history.
University of Houston Digital Archive
8. Texas City disaster -- The deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history, 468 people died when a fire on board the SS Grandcamp in Texas City, Texas, detonated approximately 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate, causing a chain reaction of fires and explosions in 1947.
