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Connecticut State Police photo. The best-known victim of the circus fire was a young blond girl wearing a white dress. She is known only as "Little Miss 1565", named after the number assigned to her body at the city's makeshift morgue. Oddly well preserved even after her death, her face has arguably become the most familiar image of the fire.
1 lip 2024 · July 6 marks the 80th remembrance of the deadliest single building or building complex fire in Connecticut history. The infamous Hartford Circus Fire happened on July 6, 1944. An estimated 168 people died that day, and experts say there were almost certainly more who lost their lives.
13 wrz 2023 · One of the worst disasters in Connecticut history, the fire spread rapidly and trapped thousands inside the 500-foot-long big top tent. Many were trampled; others burned alive or died from smoke inhalation.
The Hartford Circus Fire occurred July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, during an afternoon performance of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus before a crowd of 7,000 people. At least 167 people were killed, and over 700 were injured.
4 lip 2024 · The Hartford circus fire on July 6, 1944, claimed the lives of 168 people and injured more than 700. This is how it all happened.
4 lip 2024 · ARTFORD — On Saturday, the dwindling number of survivors of the Hartford circus fire will visit the memorial in the North End to observe the 80th anniversary of the blaze that killed 168 and left almost 700 injured, some with wounds that would leave them marked for life.
27 cze 2023 · Local TV news and newspapers bombarded the public with images of the infamous 1944 Hartford circus fire that claimed 167 lives and injured 700 attendees. This was the 25th anniversary of that conflagration as well as the state’s banishment of Barnum & Bailey Circus, prohibiting them from ever darkening Connecticut’s doorstep again.
