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A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
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Joelma Building fire
Skyscraper fire in Brazil in 1974
Edifício Praça da Bandeira, formerly known as the Joelma Building, is a 25-story building in downtown São Paulo, Brazil, completed in 1971, located at Avenida 9 de Julho, 225. On 1 February 1974, an air conditioning unit on the twelfth floor overheated, starting a fire. Because…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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