Anngelle Wood
Jul 14, 2021
Updated: Jun 5, 2023
#worcestersix
No event has impacted the city of Worcester more in the last 21 years than the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse Fire. It showed what the city and its people are made of. On December 3, 1999, a fire broke out at an abandoned warehouse at 266 Franklin Street in Worcester, Massachusetts - a massive, six story windowless concrete box of a structure. Its maze-like design proved to be deadly.
The fire raged undetected for nearly two hours. More than 25 firefighters went in to fight it back. Six of those men didn't make it out. The Worcester Six: Paul Brotherton, Jeremiah Lucey, Thomas Spencer, Timothy Jackson, James Lyons, and Joseph McGuirk.
Fire Firefighters who appear in the Worcester 6 documentary:
Lt John Franco, WPD Rescue 1
Andrew White, WPD Deputy Chief of Operations
Joe Gaffney, WPD Rescue 1 (retired)
Chief Mike Lavoie, WPD
Don Courtney, WPD Engine 16 (retired)
LT John Dwyer, WPD Training Division
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The Worcester Six: Paul Brotherton, Jerry Lucey, Tim Jackson
Jay Lyons, Joe McGuirk, Tom Spencer
U.S. Fire Administration/Technical Report Series, Dec 1999
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr-134.pdf
NFPA.org - After Effect By Matthew Foley
In December 1999, a fire in an abandoned warehouse in Worcester, Massachusetts, killed six firefighters and sent a shock wave through the country's fire service. Twenty years later, the reverberations are still being felt
Firehouse.com - The Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Fire: 20 Years Later, by Gus Maynard
Gus Maynard reminds us of how two decades ago, the Worcester, MA, Fire Department lost the lives of six firefighters in a spectacular blaze
About Worcester
The Lucky Dog history
http://theluckydogmusichall.com/about/history
Rolling Stones at Sir Morgan's Cove
There goes the Lucky Dog
https://www.concertarchives.org/venues/worcester-centrum?page=5#concert-table
The Worcester Centrum
https://www.telegram.com/news/20170826/35-years-of-centrumdcu-center-concerts
Andy Ross of OK Go
https://www.telegram.com/article/20061112/column14/611120415
The Hotel Vernon
LB Worm of wormtown fame
https://www.telegram.com/news/20180506/wormtown-at-40-irreverent-but-endearing-nickname-sticks
Wormtown Punk Blogspot
https://wormtownpunk.blogspot.com
Mass Live - Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire, which claimed lives of 6 firefighters, remembered 19 years later, by Melissa Hanson, Dec 04, 2018
https://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/2018/12/worcester_cold_storage_and_war.html
343 NYC firefighters died on 9/11. Since then, 200 have died from Ground Zero-related illnesses
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/19/nyfd-200th-firefighter-death-linked-9-11-related-illness-victims-compensation-fund/1776314001
Esquire - The Perfect Fire, by Sean Flynn, July 2000
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a1098/perfect-fire-0700
Newsweek - Why the 9/11 Death Toll Is Still Rising Today, by Sophia Waterfield, Sept 11, 20
https://www.newsweek.com/how-many-people-died-911-thousands-perishing-september-11-related-illnesses-1531058
WPVI ABC 6, Philadelphia - Sept 11 attacks are still killing first responders 19 years later
https://6abc.com/911-illness-deaths-after-new-york-firefighter/6418931
NewEngland.com - The Worcester Fire 1999
https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-history/worcester-fire
Boston Fire History - The Vendome
https://bostonfirehistory.org/fires/the-hotel-vendome-fire-and-collapse
The Strand Theater Fire, Brockton, Massachusetts
https://www.firehero.org/2020/03/30/memorial-monday-strand-theatre-fire
Profiles of the Worcester Six
https://www.firehero.org
Recommendations post fire
ARCHIVES
This Morning, The Sun Didn't Rise': Worcester Grieves For 6 Firefighters Presumed Killed On The Job, by Daniel Mac, Cindy Rodriguez, Dec 5, 1999
Six Who Died In Worcester Remembered Families Recall Firefighters' Devotion To A Perilous Duty, by Ellen Barry, Marcella Bombardieri, Dec 6, 1999
https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/405313900/c025e5e00df7408dpq/7?accountid=9675
Stalled Search Yields Heartache Only, By Marcella Bombardieri, Dec 7, 1999
https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/405323108/C025E5E00DF7408DPQ/10?accountid=9675
Plans For Film On Worcester Fire Halted, Boston Globe, Apr 7, 2004
https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/404895088/d8d49556e27e4db9pq/5?accountid=9675
Part two to come