The following is a list of fires in high-rise buildings. A skyscraper fire or high-rise fire is a class of structural fire specific to

tall buildings A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ri ...

. Skyscraper fires are technically challenging for

fire department A fire department (American English) or fire brigade (Commonwealth English), also known as a fire authority, fire district, fire and rescue, or fire service in some areas, is an organization that provides fire prevention and fire suppression se ...

s: they require unusually high degrees of organization and cooperation between participating

firefighting Firefighting is the act of extinguishing or preventing the spread of unwanted fires from threatening human lives and destroying property and the environment. A person who engages in firefighting is known as a firefighter. Firefighters typically ...

units to contain and extinguish. Skyscraper fires are often multiple-alarm fires.

Notable fires in history

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File:Call Bldg on fire, San Francisco earthquake cph.3b04298.jpg, Central Tower burns after the

1906 San Francisco earthquake At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''). High-intensity ...

File:Image of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25 - 1911.jpg,

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The ...

in 1911 File:1971년 12월 25일 대연각호텔 대화재 사고(大然閣 -大火災事故)2.jpg, Daeyeonggak Hotel fire in 1971 File:Dupont Plaza Fire USCG.jpg,

Dupont Plaza Hotel arson The Dupont Plaza Hotel arson was a fire that occurred on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1986, at the Hotel Dupont Plaza (now San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino) in San Juan, the capital of the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. The fire was ...

in 1986 File:Bijlmerramp2 without link.jpg, Aftermath of the

El Al Flight 1862 On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft of the then state-owned Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer (colloquially "Bijlmer") neighbourhood (part of Amsterd ...

crash in 1992 File:WTC 1993 ATF Commons.jpg, Aftermath of the

1993 World Trade Center bombing The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, U.S., carried out on February 26, 1993, when a van bomb detonated below the North Tower of the complex. The urea nitrate–hydrogen gas en ...

File:UNIS towers may 1996.png, UNITIC Twin Skyscrapers after the

Siege of Sarajevo The Siege of Sarajevo ( sh, Opsada Sarajeva) was a prolonged blockade of Sarajevo, the capital of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War. After it was initially besieged by the forces of the Yugoslav ...

in 1992 File:Evstafiev-sarajevo-building-burns.jpg, Executive Council Building during the

in 1992 File:Ostankino fire august 2000.jpg,

Ostankino Tower Ostankino Tower (russian: links=no, Останкинская телебашня, Ostankinskaya telebashnya) is a television and radio tower in Moscow, Russia, owned by the Moscow branch of unitary enterprise Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Ne ...

fire in 2000 File:North face south tower after plane strike 9-11.jpg, The north face of

Two World Trade Center 2 World Trade Center (2 WTC; also known as 200 Greenwich Street) is a planned skyscraper as part of the World Trade Center complex in Manhattan, New York City. It will replace the original 2 World Trade Center, which was completed in 1972 and ...

(south tower) immediately after being struck by

United Airlines Flight 175 United Airlines Flight 175 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The flight's scheduled plan was from Logan International Airport, in Boston, ...

in the

September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commer ...

File:Wtc7onfire.jpg,

7 World Trade Center 7 World Trade Center (7 WTC, WTC-7, or Tower 7) refers to two buildings that have existed at the same location within the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The original structure, part of the original World Trade C ...

burns after the collapse of the Twin Towers File:TorreWindsor1.JPG, Windsor Tower after the 2005 fire File:Belaire Condominium, 12 October 2006.jpg, Aftermath of the 2006 New York City plane crash File:Deutsche Bank Building fire 8-18-07 09.jpg,

Deutsche Bank Building The Deutsche Bank Building (formerly Bankers Trust Plaza) was a 39-story office building located at 130 Liberty Street in Manhattan, New York City, adjacent to the World Trade Center site. The building opened in 1974 and closed following the ...

fire in 2007 File:Harrow Court - fire extinguised.jpg, Aftermath of the Harrow Court fire in 2007 File:CCTV new headquarters Fire 20090209.jpg, Beijing Television Cultural Center fire in 2009 File:Wushinfire22.jpg, Wooshin Golden Suites fire in 2010 File:Shanghai jiaozhou road fire.jpg,

2010 Shanghai fire The 2010 Shanghai fireThe PRC State Council officially named it "上海“11·15”特别重大火灾" (Shanghai "11·15" especially serious fire) or "上海市静安区胶州路公寓大楼“11·15”特别重大火灾事故" (Shanghai Jing'a ...

File:2010 Shanghai fire video.ogv, A video showing 2010 Shanghai fire File:Explosión en torre de PEMEX.jpg, Aftermath of the

Torre Ejecutiva Pemex explosion On 31 January 2013 in Mexico City, an explosion caused by a gas leak occurred beneath Building B-2 at the Torre Ejecutiva Pemex (Pemex Executive Tower), a skyscraper complex that is the headquarters of Pemex, the Mexican state oil company. At le ...

in 2013 File:Fire at Extell's One57 - March 15, 2014.jpg, Fire at One57 in 2014. File:Plasco building on fire by Emi uploaded by Mardetanha (2).jpg, Plasco Building on fire prior to collapse in 2017. File:Grenfell Tower fire morning.jpg,

Grenfell Tower Grenfell Tower is a derelict 24-storey residential tower block in North Kensington in London, England. The tower was completed in 1974 as part of the first phase of the Lancaster West Estate. The tower was named after Grenfell Road, which ran t ...

in the early morning of 14 June 2017. File:2020 Bohumín arson attack 11.jpg, Aftermath of the Bohumín arson attack in 2020. File:Gas explosion and fire house in Prešov 19 Slovakia 71.jpg, Aftermath of gas explosion in

Prešov Prešov (, hu, Eperjes, Rusyn and Ukrainian: Пряшів) is a city in Eastern Slovakia. It is the seat of administrative Prešov Region ( sk, Prešovský kraj) and Šariš, as well as the historic Sáros County of the Kingdom of Hungary. With ...

in 2019. File:高雄城中城大火01.jpg, Aftermath of the 2021 Kaohsiung tower fire File:Huge-fire-erupts-at-islamabad-shopping-mall-1665320371-3775.jpg, alt=The Centaurus Mall Islamabad with the spire aflame, 2022 Islamabad building fire

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* https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/local-news/2172608/bank-of-lisbon-building-site-of-deadly-joburg-fire-to-come-down/
Windsor Building in Madrid

East Tower in Caracas

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