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21 Die In Fire: Smoke Traps Hotel Victims

21 Die In Fire: Smoke Traps Hotel Victims
Clip: 429194_1_1
Year Shot: 1963 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1718
Original Film: 036-106-02
HD: N/A
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Timecode: 00:08:52 - 00:09:56

Same as catalog # 526986 As the Roosevelt Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida, blazes firemen battle through fumes and fire to rescue trapped guests on upper floors that their ladders won't reach. Navy helicopters join in to rescue others from the hotel roof as 21 victims are trapped and die in the hotel that was jammed with fans who were Jacksonville for a football game. Jacksonville, Florida Roosevelt Hotel on fire. MS - Some people are half way out the window's. MS - One person on the window ledge of an open window, smoke is billowing out of the room. MS - Fire men with extended ladders on their fire truck. Camera looking up - A bed-sheet ladder hanging out the window. MS - Fireman on his extended ladder. MS - You can barely see the head of a person hanging out an open window, thick smoke is just pouring out of the room. MLS - You can see a Navy rescue helicopter through the thick smoke. MS - A survivor of the tragic fire being moved to an ambulance. MS - Hotel survivors in a small group stop at the street light and walk across the street.