2001 Mesa Redonda fire

A firework set off at the Mesa Redonda market district in central Lima started a fire that spread across four blocks, with civil defence staff and firefighters working to reach the hundreds of traders and members of the public inside the commercial quarter. El Comercio records that about a hundred tonnes of goods were stored there and that traders kept stocks of pyrotechnics hidden under their tables. The deaths came from the fire rather than from a single blast.

Date
2001-12-29
Deaths (Wikipedia list, low end where it gives a range)
291
What the pin marks
The historic centre of Lima, of which the Mesa Redonda market in Barrios Altos is part, as the cited page positions it.
Where the position is published
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Centre_of_Lima

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: fire, fireworks, market, peru

2001 Mesa Redonda fire

Coordinates: -12.05139, -77.04306

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