BCAM FIRE WATCH / INCIDENT ATLAS
Every marker leads to a source.
Explore significant responses and landmark cases in their geographic context. Follow the original account before drawing lessons for a building.
162 reviewed records. 22 identified high-rise cases.
Filter for high-rise cases across the archive. Orange marks are source-linked records; cyan marks are current or recent agency items, including past incidents reported within the last seven days. Neither layer is a comprehensive global count, and some archive accounts describe contained fires rather than major disasters.
Scale check: England’s official statistics recorded 695 attended fires in purpose-built flats or maisonettes of 10 or more storeys in the year ending March 2026. That national count is not the number of BCAM-reviewed cases, and high-rise definitions vary by jurisdiction.
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Orange: archive at approximate city or district. Cyan: recent agency item, at an agency point for NSW RFS or a city-level proxy for Los Angeles, Toronto and London. Reports without a defensible point remain in the list but are not plotted. London items are dated reports of past incidents, not active dispatches. A point may be imprecise or change. Select a mark to inspect its source. Checking current sources… © State of New South Wales (NSW Rural Fire Service). For current information go to NSW RFS. Map: Natural Earth.
Patterson Houses apartment fire
Mott Haven, Bronx, New York, United States
The city reported a fire in an 11th-floor apartment, one death and multiple serious injuries. FDNY identified an e-bike battery as the cause; the full investigation record may add detail.
- Why included
- Fatal fire in a 13-storey residential building
- Map precision
- district-level approximation
162 archive · 0 recent source items (0 without map points)
Selection rule: the agency reported six or more responding fire engines, a fatality or multiple rescues, or BCAM selected a documented case for its building relevance. A large response is a screening threshold, not an assertion of comparable severity across countries. Some BCAM case files fall below that threshold. Official incident accounts are not final findings. Coverage currently favours London and will expand through source review.
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