- Author
- Demers, D. P.
- Title
- Ten Die in Greece, New York Hotel Fire.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA
- Journal
- Fire Journal, Vol. 73, No. 4, 25-30, July 1979
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Keywords
- buildings | hotels | deaths | combustible materials | casualties | occupants
- Identifiers
- Holiday Inn, Greece, NY; combustible interior finish; exit stairway; Motor Inn
- Abstract
- On Sunday, November 26, 1978, a fire that was most likely incendiary in origin occurred at the Holiday Inn-Northwest in Greece, New York, a suburb of Rochester with a population of 90,000. The fire resulted in the deaths of 10 occupants of the hotel and gained widespread media attention.