City officials are grappling with revelations that the Atlanta Fire and Rescue Department lacks essential equipment critical for keeping the public safe. “In recent months, (officials) have struggled ...

Seventy years ago today, 119 people lost their lives in the deadliest hotel fire in the country. Many of the 280 guests at the Winecoff Hotel had come to Atlanta to go Christmas shopping, a group of ...

Thursday marks 77 years since over 100 people lost their lives in what remains the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history. On the morning of Dec. 7, 1946, a fire broke out around 3:30 a.m. at the ...

Although this Dec. 7 marks the 65th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, it also marks the 60th anniversary of another horrific event much closer to home – the tragic Winecoff Hotel fire of Dec. 7, 1946, in ...

ATLANTA — The site of the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history — a tragedy that led to nationwide fire-safety reforms — will open to guests next month as a new boutique hotel after a $28 million ...

In this Dec. 7, 1946 photo, a woman leaps from an upper story to escape the burning Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta. Seconds later the woman crashed to her death on the hotel marquee. An amateur ...

ATLANTA (AP) — The cries of trapped hotel guests screaming in agony are still seared into Richard Hamil’s memory, seven decades after the Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta. As a 9-year-old boy, he and ...

A review of the news that made The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s front pages through the decades. Today’s AJC Deja News comes to you from the Saturday, Dec. 8, 1946, edition of The Atlanta ...

The cries of trapped hotel guests screaming in agony are still seared into Richard Hamil’s memory, seven decades after the Winecoff Hotel fire in Atlanta. As a 9-year-old boy, he and his father were ...