Oklahoma
98th Anniversary Of Deadliest Oklahoma School Fire
Saturday marked 98 years since an Oklahoma faculty caught hearth and brought about one of many deadliest faculty fires in U.S. historical past.
On December twenty fourth, 1924, throughout a Christmas program, candles ignited a Christmas tree inside a one-room schoolhouse in Kiowa County new Hobart.
The hearth at Babbs Change Faculty killed 36 folks and the Nationwide Fireplace Safety Affiliation lists it because the sixth deadliest hearth within the nation.
New legal guidelines required faculty exit doorways to open outward after that fireplace.