Hotel Roosevelt fire

Hotel Roosevelt fire
The Hotel Roosevelt (in the foreground), in a 2001 Navy publication.
DateDecember 29, 1963 (1963-12-29)
LocationJacksonville, Florida
TypeFire
CauseFaulty wires
Deaths22

The Hotel Roosevelt fire on December 29, 1963,[1] was the worst fire that Jacksonville, Florida, had seen since the Great Fire of 1901,[2] and it contributed to the worst one-day death toll in the city's history: 22 people died, mostly from carbon monoxide poisoning.[3][4]

At the time, the Hotel Roosevelt was one of two luxury hotels in the city's downtown, with many restaurants and businesses on its ground floor, including a ballroom and a barber shop. At the end of each year, the Hotel Roosevelt hosted hundreds of travelers who came to attend the Gator Bowl.

  1. ^ "Tragedy Ends Gator Bowl Fete". Los Angeles Times. AP. December 30, 1963. p. 1. Retrieved December 22, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Hotel Fire". Los Angeles Times. AP. December 30, 1963. p. 16. Retrieved December 22, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Report Near in Probe of Hotel Blaze". The Tampa Tribune. AP. January 1, 1964. Retrieved December 22, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference doorman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).