The Hartford Fire Department held a remembrance ceremony ... The flames quickly spread partly because the circus tent was covered in paraffin wax thinned with gasoline. It was a popular ...

(WFSB) - This weekend will mark 80 years since the deadly circus fire in Hartford ... to be laid out around the tent, they had not been unloaded that day in Hartford. They had water trucks ...

The infamous Hartford Circus Fire happened on July 6 ... matinee show when a fire breaks out on one of the sidewalls of the tent,” Belanger said. “Some people thought it was part of the ...

The three-ring circus was situated in the northeast corner of Hartford in a field ... Within 10 minutes, the fire reportedly had burned through the tent poles and support ropes, sending all ...

The fire occurred two days before the 79th anniversary of the infamous Hartford circus fire ... flammable paraffin wax waterproofing of the circus tent caught fire. It is considered one of ...

On July 6, 1944 the Hartford Circus fire claimed the lives of ... Tragically, not long into the performance, fire began to engulf the tent. The blaze was accelerated by what was then a common ...

“One of the biggest concerns with a tent, also demonstrated during the Hartford Circus fire, is the flammability of the tent fabric,” said Mahoney. Both NFPA 1 and NFPA 101 require that tent ...

Her uncle Raymond Erickson is another enduring mystery of the circus fire. Only six-years-old that day in 1944 Erickson made it out of the tent badly burned and was taken to Hartford Hospital by ...

In 2005, a Hartford Circus Fire memorial, designed to mark the exact location of the big top on Barbour Street, was erected. Flowering dogwoods outline the size and shape of the tent. Where the ...

The tent’s on fire On that sweltering afternoon ... In the course of questioning, Segee told police he started the Hartford circus fire because “the red man had told him to.” ...

Hartford Police Chief Charles ... wrote about her memories of the circus fire in a 1994 article in The Courant. “Outside the tent, people were screaming, crying and running to escape the inferno.