- Author
- Isner, M. S.
- Title
- Paxton Hotel Fire, Chicago, Illinois, March 16, 1993. Fire Investigation Report.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Report
- Fire Investigation Report, 1993, 12 p.
- Keywords
- fire investigations | hotels | elderly persons | fire spread | combustion products | rescue operations | fire fatalities | occupants
- Identifiers
- Paxton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, March 16, 1993
- Abstract
- On March 16, 1993, an early morning fire of undetermined cause and origin occurred at the Paxton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, a building housing mainly low-income and elderly people. The fire spread into several rooms and filled corridors with combustion products before most occupants could escape and before the fire department was notified. First arriving fire fighters found the building heavily involved in fire and found tens of people by windows and on the roof in need of immediate rescue. Twenty residents died in this fire and other people who would have been expected to be on the premises at the hotel were countered as "missing". An estimated 28 other residents were injured, and the building was destroyed.