CFlamma dijo:
La acotación de Ángel Malo también siempre me ha llamado la atención. Pese a ser un caso absolutamente documentado, el incendio de la Iglesia de la Compañía no figura en libro alguno como el triste récord que es: el incendio de un solo edificio que más muertes ha causado en el mundo.
No me parece que sea tan así. Innumerables son las páginas que destacan el incendio de la Iglesia de la Compañía como un gran desastre. Por ejemplo, en esta encabeza la lista como el incendio con mayor número de víctimas.
List of wars and disasters by death toll - Fire
ca. 2,500 - Church of La Compana (Santiago, Chile, 1863)
ca. 2,000 - Peshtigo Fire, (Wisconsin, 1871)
1,700 - Waterfront fire, (Chongqing, China, 1949)
1,670 - theater fire (Canton, China, 1845)
1,100–2,700 - Salang tunnel fire (Afghanistan, 1982)
694 - theater fire (Xinjiang, China, 1977)
658 - Antoung Movie Theater (China, 1937)
620 - Ring Theatre (Vienna, Austria, 1881)
602 - Iroquois Theater Fire, (Chicago, 1903)
559 - forest fire (Cloquet, Minnesota, 1918)
500 - Pemex LP gas fire (Mexico City, Mexico, 1984)
500 - flood-spread fuel fire (Durunka, Egypt, 1994)
492 - Cocoanut Grove fire, (Boston, 1942)
468 - Texas City Disaster, (Texas City, Texas, 1947)
465+ - Asunción Paraguay supermarket fire, (2004)
441 - Rajiv Marriage Palace (school function) (Mandi Dabwali, India, 1995)
418 - Hinckley Fire (Minnesota, 1894)
400 - Abadan theater arson (Abadan, Iran, 1978)
326 - North German Lloyd Steamship Line piers (Hoboken, New Jersey, 1900)
324 - movie theater, (Xinjiang, China, 1994)
323 - Circus arson, (Niterói, Brazil, 1961)
322 - L'Innovation department store (Brussels, Belgium, 1967)
320 - Ohio State Penitentiary fire, (Columbus, Ohio, 1930)
310 - theater fire (Karamay, China, 1994)
309 - Disco fire (Luoyang, China, 2000)
300 - subway fire, (Baku, Azerbaijan, 1995)
300 - Great Chicago Fire (Chicago, 1871)
285 - Conway's Theater, (New York City, 1876)
282 - Thumb Fire, (Michigan, 1881)
194 - República Cromagnon nightclub fire, (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004)
189 - Subway arson (Daegu, South Korea, 2003)
189 - Joelma Fire, (São Paulo, Brazil, 1974)
187 - Doll factory (Bangkok, Thailand, 1993)
178 - School fire Collinwood, Ohio, 1908)
170 - Rhoads Opera House (Boyerton, Pennsylvania, 1908)
167 - Piper Alpha oil platform, (North Sea, 1988)
165 - Beverly Hills Supper Club fire, (Southgate, Kentucky, 1977)
168 - Hartford Circus Fire, (Hartford, Connecticut, 1944)
162 - Hotel Daeyungak, Seoul, South Korea (25th December 1971)
160 - Richmond Theater, (Richmond, Virginia, 1811)
160 - Miramichi Fire, (New Brunswick, 1825)
156 - Alpine tunnel fire (Kaprun, Austria, 2000)
150 - Clifford's Tower, (York, England, 1190)
150 - Exeter Theatre Royal fire, (Exeter, England, 1887)
145 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, (New York, 1911)
140 - Gas Truck Crash, (Tarragona, Spain, 1978)
119 - Winecoff Hotel Fire, (Atlanta, Georgia, December 7, 1946)
100 - The Station nightclub fire (Rhode Island, 2003)