On 13 August 1966, a fire caused by an overturned electric heater in a Melbourne hostel killed 30 men, the majority being long time boarders at the hostel.
Twenty five lost their lives in the fire and five died later as a result of their injuries.
Fire - Urban - Kew
Quick Statistics
30
Fatalities
1
Businesses Destroyed
Information Sources
eMelbourne, Fires, July 2008, website viewed 21 September 2011
Miller J, Australia’s greatest disasters: the tragedies that have defined the nation. 1st edn. Wollombi, New South Wales: Exisle Publishing Limited, 2007, p 62
Plunkett G, Let the Bums Burn, 1st ed, Berowra Heights, New South Wales, Leech Cup Books