page_title: List of building or structure fires
section_title: 2000s
hierarchical_section_title: List of building or structure fires / 21st century / 2000s
caption_attribution_description: English: Taken from a rooftop in Brooklyn and from the Brooklyn waterfront.
context_page_description: This is a list of building or structure fires where a building or structure has caught fire.
context_section_description: 2000 – Immigration Tower fire, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, two killed and 48 injured on August 2.
  2000 – Tiantang cinema fire in Jiaozuo, Henan, China, killed 74 on March 29.
  2000 – Xiamen, Fuji electric factory, killed eight females.
  2000 – Qingzhou chicken processing plant fire, Qingzhou, Shandong, China, 38 workers killed on April 22.
  2000 – Enschede fireworks disaster, Enschede, Netherlands, 22 killed (including four firemen) on 13 May.
  2000 – Fireworks factory fire, Guangdong, China, 36 killed on June 30.
  2000 – Fire on Ostankino Tower, Moscow.
  2000 – Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire in Childers, Queensland, 15 killed in arson attack on June 23.
  2000 –  Hôtelissimo Les Relais Bleus Hotel, Gonesse, France. On July 25, 2000 the hotel was destroyed after Air France Flight 4590 crashed into it shortly after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris, France. All 109 people on board the plane were killed, along with four people in the hotel. There were no non-fatal injuries.
  2000 – Dongdu Commercial shopping center fire in Luoyang, Henan, China, killed 309 on December 25.
  2001 – Kyanguli Secondary school fire, Machakos, Eastern Province, Kenya, 68 killed on March 26.
  2001 – Erwadi fire incident, Tamil Nadu, India, 25 killed on August 6.
  2001 – Phantasialand a fire destroyed two roller coasters, a theatre and parts of the Westernstadt. It was the result of a cable fire in the Grand-Canyon-Bahn caused by faulty wiring. The blaze covered about 38 million Deutsche Mark (17 million USD) in damage[5] and 54 people were injured.
  2001 – Manor Hotel fire, Quezon City, Philippines, 75 killed on August 17.
  2001 – Myojo 56 building fire, Tokyo, Japan, 44 killed by arson on September 1.
  2001 – September 11 attacks – Two airliners deliberately flown into the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City, sparked fires on multiple floors. 2,606 victims died as a result of the fires and the subsequent collapse of the towers. A third building, World Trade Center Building 7, which was not hit by a plane, but heavily damaged due to the collapse of the towers, also caught fire and subsequently collapsed. A third plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and its impact and subsequent fire killed 125 victims in the building.
  2001 – Volendam New Years fire during a New Year's party in De Hemel cafè in Volendam, Netherlands killed 14 and injured 200.
  2001 – Several houses caught fire after American Airlines flight 587 crashed into a Queen's neighborhood, all 265 on the plane and five people on the ground died.
  2001 – Mesa Redonda fire, Lima, Peru, 291 killed on December 29.
  2002 – Shree Lee International footwear factory fire, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, 42 killed on June 26.
  2002 – Heppi Karaoke bar fire, Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia, 42 killed on July 9.
  2002 – Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, Vietnam, over 60 killed, over 100 missing and 500 injured in a luxury department store fire and collapse.
  2002 – Sidi Moussa prison fire, El Jadida, Morocco, killing 50, on November 2.
  2002 – La Coajira nightclub fire at Caracas, Venezuela, 47 killed on December 1.
  2003 – The Station nightclub fire 96 died at the scene on February 20 in West Warwick, Rhode Island; four others later died from injuries at local hospitals.
  2003 – Greenwood Nursing Home fire in Hartford, Connecticut, killed 16 on February 26.
  2003 – Daegu subway fire in Daegu, South Korea, 192 killed by arson on February 18.
  2003 – Nursing home fire in Nashville, Tennessee, killed 14 on September 25.
  2003 – Peoples' Friendship University of Russia fire, Moscow, Russia, 36 killed on November 24.
  2003 – Château de Lunéville gutted by fire, January 2–3, 2003.
  2004 – Zhongbai Commercial Plaza fire, Jilin, northeastern China, killed 53 on February 16.
  2004 – San Pedro Sula prison fire, Honduras, killed 103 on 17 May.
  2004 – Momart warehouse fire, numerous significant contemporary work of arts destroyed by fire, 24 May, Leyton, East London.
  2004 – 2004 Kumbakonam School fire, Kumbakonam, Tamil-Nadu, India, killed 94 on July 16.
  2004 – Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire.
caption: The World Trade Center burning in the background during the September 11 attacks in 2001.
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