A little girl known for 47 years only as "Little Miss 1565" after she died in a circus fire that also killed 167 others has been identified, thanks to a tenacious arson investigator. The fire became ...
A retiring fire captain removed decades-old photos of a young 1944 fire victim from the walls of Hartford’s Engine 14 and burned them in his fireplace at home because he disagreed with having the ...
HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut’s medical examiner is seeking to exhume two female bodies found after the 1944 Hartford circus fire in an attempt to identify at least one of them. Chief State Medical ...
WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — Authorities exhumed the bodies Monday of two victims of the 1944 Hartford circus fire in the hopes of determining whether one of them is a woman who is among five people still ...
(WFSB) - This weekend will mark 80 years since the deadly circus fire in Hartford. On July 6, 1944, 168 people died, and hundreds more were hurt after the Big Top went up in flames. The community is ...
On the morning of July 6, 1944, Theresa Fulco woke up not feeling well. The heat in her apartment on Pleasant Street in Hartford was already rising and it was forecast to be a sweltering day. Her ...