L'Innovation Department Store fire

Name: L'Innovation Department Store fire
Start: 1967

1967 CE.

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The L'Innovation fire was a fire that took place at the À L'Innovation department store on the Rue Neuve/Nieuwstraat in central Brussels, Belgium, on 22 May 1967. More than 150 firefighters were mobilised to fight it, 251 people were killed, 62 injured, and the department store itself, the work of the Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta, was destroyed. The L'Innovation fire remains the deadliest fire in Belgian history.

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