Sixteen-Fatality Fire in High-Rise Residence for the Elderly, Johnson City, Tennessee, December 1989.

摘要

A Christmas Eve fire that caused the death of 14 residents and two visitors occurred at the John Sevier Center, a high-rise residence for the elderly, in Johnson City, Tennessee. It also injured about 50 other people including 15 firefighters. The fire started in apt. 102 shortly after 1700 hours and traveled out of the apartment and across the ceiling above the main hallway smoke detectors (which would have activated the 911 fire alarm system) across to the main lobby. Swirling smoke trapped many of the occupants on the upper floors of the 11-story building before any notification or alarm was heard by them. The alarm was receive at 1711 by the dispatcher of the Johnson City Fire Department. The first units were on the scene within four minutes.