L'Innovation department store fire
1967 fire in a department store in Brussels, Belgium / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[1] More than 150 firefighters were mobilised to fight it, 325 people were killed, 80 injured,[2] and the department store itself, the work of the Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta, was destroyed.
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The L'Innovation fire remains the deadliest fire in Belgian history.[3]