Eight-Fatality Row House Fire- Chester, Pennsylvania: Lessons Learned from Residential Fires With Five or More Fatalities (USFA Technical Report Series 067)

Multiple fatality residential fires, especially those which claim the lives of children, have a devastating effect on family members and friends left behind. The tremendous impacts of these fires on a community are powerful stimuli for improving fire safety and reinforcing many of the hard-learned lessons of the past. During 1992, the United States Fire Administration (USFA) investigated reports of nine residential fires, each of which claimed the lives of five or more individuals