The Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire began on December 3, 1999, in a 93-year-old abandoned building at 266 Franklin Street, Worcester, Massachusetts. [1]

On the afternoon of Dec. 3, 1999, two homeless persons seeking shelter from the cold were in an office on the second floor of the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse building. A candle...

Gus Maynard reminds us of how two decades ago, the Worcester, MA, Fire Department lost the lives of six firefighters in a spectacular blaze. On Dec. 3, 1999, at 6:13 p.m., a fire was reported...

Dec 3, 2025 · Six firefighters lost their lives in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. blaze on Dec. 3, 1999.

On December 3, 1999, six firefighters died in a fire at the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Company in Worcester, Massachusetts, leading to significant changes in fire safety...

Dec 4, 2024 · Worcester firefighters honored the men — known as the Worcester Six — who lost their lives responding to a warehouse fire 25 years ago with a memorial ceremony Tuesday. The annual …

Nov 29, 2024 · On Tuesday, as it has done on Dec. 3 every year since 1999, the city will mark the death of the "Worcester 6," who lost their lives in an abandoned 93-year-old warehouse at 266 Franklin St....

Jan 9, 2020 · The abandoned Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. building, built in 1905, was the stuff of firefighters’ nightmares: maze-like passageways, rows of identical rooms with identical …

Nov 1, 2019 · The cold storage fire was the first structure fire in the nation’s history with six or more firefighter fatalities where contributing factors did not include a building collapse or an explosion—the …

Dec 2, 2025 · Worcester will commemorate this week 26 years since the Cold Storage Warehouse fire, a five-alarm blaze that took the lives of six firefighters. The city will hold a five-minute ceremony...