Today in fire history: a nursing home fire kills three and injures 18 others

A multiple-death fire occurred on March 21, 1988 at the Oakville Heath Care Center, a nursing home located at 3391 Old Getwell Road in Memphis, Tennessee. The patient involved in the ignition of the fire and two other patients in the room of origin were killed, and 18 others were injured. The two-story, fire-resistive building in which the incident occurred contained 27 sleeping rooms housing 73 non-ambulatory patients and 1 patient who was reported as being ambulatory. The building had no automatic sprinkler system or automatic fire detection system, except a smoke detector used in conjunction with a pair of...

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