WPBFD History

APPENDIX D

PARTIAL FIRE SUMMARY

October 1893 Cocoanut Grove House January 2, 1896 Midway Plaisance Saloon and Seminole Hotel Banyan/Narcissus February 20, 1896 Major fire Clematis Street/Narcissus Street 1902 Lake Park Hotel (located in West Palm Beach) June 9,1903 Breakers Hotel 1910 Woods fire threatened the new school June 1-2, 1912 Fort Lauderdale fire January 25, 1916 Grove's Warehouse Banyan/Olive July 13, 1916 Brush fire threatened a fernery south of Calberg Court November 29,1916 Gas-works March 8, 1922 Palm Beach Mercantile on Clematis Street (showing movie) April 30, 1922 3rd Street and Rosemary Avenue March 18, 1925 Breakers Hotel July 14, 1925 19th Avenue (now 21st Street) September 12, 1925 10th Street and Tamarind Avenue November 24, 1925 10th Street and Tamarind Avenue March 4, 1926. Pine Ridge Hospital, 13th Street and Division Avenue May 30, 1926 11th Street west of Tamarind Avenue September 18, 1926 Hollywood, WPB sent pumpers to draft water after hurricane October 5, 1926 412-19th Street October 25, 1926 Robert Cox, age nine, revived using the Schaeffer Method. December 22, 1926 9th Street and Tamarind Avenue December 24, 1926 Lake Park Hotel, 1st Street and Narcissus Avenue February 11, 1927 West Palm Beach City Garage February 19, 1927 Building on Military Trail March 1, 1927 521-3rd Street March 3, 1927 Cheerful and Contentment March 11, 1927 Ten year old died after being rescued from a fire August 8, 1927 Boat fire October 13, 1927 Street cave-in at 3rd Street and Olive late 1927 Belle Glade and the Jupiter Lighthouse for fires July 3, 1928 Boat fire severely burned J. P. Keams September 16, 1928 Hurricane hit WPB 1928 20th and Division, twelve buildings burned November 1, 1928 "Shorty" Keen, Florida Power & Light electrocuted December 8, 1928 E.K.Kerrell asphyxiated December 17, 1928 Seaspray Ave., Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, drowning January 20, 1929 N. Olive & 5th Street, Ender Ray overcome, carbon monoxide February 3, 1929 Mrs. L. Conners's car caught fire March 2, 1929 West end of Singer bridge drownings April 2, 1929 817 Division Ave. Tessie Thurston electric shock May 18, 1929 322-6th Street to help get crazed man down from roof July 12, 1929 Men who had fallen or jumped from a boat January 19, 1930 Plane crash at the Royal Park Bridge February 10 1930 Belle Glade downtown fire March 2, 1930 Seminole Indian camp May 17, 1930 Fire in McGinley Building September 15, 1930 Mrs. R. E. Felder burned when gasoline stove exploded October 29, 1930 Larrabee responded to broken ammonia lines October 31, 1930 525 North Poinsettia, Antonio Lenores overcome by gas