The Hotel Royal fire occurred on February 7, 1892, at the Hotel Royal in

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, killing 28 people. The fire began in the hotel's elevator shaft, where the night engineer was performing maintenance work by the light of a candle. The candle's flame either ignited a gas leak in the shaft, or it caught a dry tinder such as dust and was then flamed by the strong winds blowing through the shaft. A coroner's jury assigned no fault for the fire and made no recommendations for safety improvements; however, legislation was introduced in the

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that sought to tighten the

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in light of the fire as well as the 1891 Park Place disaster.

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