List of Fires - Transport Fires

Transport Fires

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• 1903—Paris Métro train fire kills 84
• 1913—Ais Gill rail crash in England kills 14 chiefly through fire on September 1
• 1915—Quintinshill rail crash in Scotland kills 227 chiefly through fire on May 22
• 1916—Black Tom explosion (fires led to the explosion)
• 1937—Hindenburg disaster near Lakehurst, New Jersey
• 1951—Sakuragicho commuter train fire, Yokohama, Japan, 106 killed on April 24
• 1955—Le Mans 24 hour race disaster, Le Mans, France, over 80 killed on June 11
• 1967—Apollo 1 burned during ground tests at Cape Canaveral January 27, 3 astronauts died
• 1972—Hokuriku railroad tunnel fire, Tsuruga, Japan, 31 killed, 637 injured.
• 1975—Tent site at Mina, Saudi Arabia, 138 killed
• 1978—Taunton train fire on British Rail kills 12 on July 6
• 1978—Los Alfaques Disaster kills 217 on a campsite near Tarragona, in Spain on July 11
• 1982—Salang tunnel fire kills between 150 and 1,000 people in Afghanistan's only road tunnel
• 1982—Caldecott Tunnel fire kills 6 and severely damages major road tunnel in Oakland, California
• 1984—Summit tunnel fire in West Yorkshire, England
• 1986—General Mining Union Kinross gold mine fire, Transvaal, South Africa, 177 killed, 230 injured on September 16.
• 1988—Carrollton, Kentucky bus collision—27 deaths on May 14, 1988. One of the deadliest bus disasters in US history.
• 1992—Chien-Kang Bus Fire (健康幼稚園火燒車事件) one bus carrying 50 kindergarten students, teachers, and parents caught fire at Taoyuan on their way to the Leofoo Amusement Park killing 23 and injuring 9.
• 1995—1995 Baku Metro fire kills over 200
• 1996—Channel Tunnel fire between France and England on November 18
• 1997—bus fire, Guangdong, China, bus caught fire on expressway, killing 39 passengers
• 1998—Yaounde train explosion fuel train explosion, kills 120 people.
• 1999—1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel fire—39 deaths, caused by the cargo of a transport truck catching fire while in the tunnel.
• 2000—Ibadan tanker truck explosion multiple car pile-up explodes 100–200 killed.
• 2000—Kaprun disaster, Austrian funicular train fire, kills 155 people
• 2002—Al Ayatt train disaster, Egypt
• 2003—Daegu subway fire in Daegu (South Korea) Train fire killed at least 198 people and injured at least 147.
• 2003—Ladhowal train fire, India
• 2003—Chun-Lung Bus Fire (尊龍客運高速公路火燒車事故)—A charter bus caught fire at Taipei County killing 6 and injuring 4.
• 2006—Brand India Fair at Meerut Victoria Park fire, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, 100 killed on April 10.
• 2006—A bus caught fire on a street in Rio Grande, Brazil. 28 people were injured, but no-one was killed. The cause of the fire was a can of paint thinner under the driver's seat, which ignited following a short-circuit.
• 2007—Comilla bus caught fire in Bangladesh, at least fifty-five killed on January 6.
• 2008—Channel Tunnel fire, between France and England on 11 September
• 2008—Lower Saxony bus caught fire by a passenger smoking on the A2 Autobahn (Expressway) in Germany, twenty killed on November 4.
• 2008—Boromo bus caught fire in Balé Province, Burkina Faso, sixty-seven killed on November 15
• 2008—Firozabad bus caught fire in Uttar Pradesh, India, killing sixty-three on December 9.
• 2009—2009 Kenyan oil spill ignition resulted in the deaths of at least 111 people and infliction of gruesome injuries to countless hundreds more on 31 January, following a road accident in Molo, Kenya.
• 2010 — During the Mount Carmel forest fire, a bus that was transporting prison guards was caught up in a wildfire as they made their way to evacuate a nearby prison, resulting in the death of 40 guards as flames overwhelmed the bus.
• 2011—Xinyang bus caught fire in Henan Province, China, killed 41 person, on July 22.
• 2012—Okobie road tanker explosion in Nigeria killed at least 95 people and injured 50 others.
• 2012—Nellore train fire kills 32 passengers on the Tamil Nadu Express near Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, India.