1915 Fire Booklet

A February 1915 fire destroyed several blocks of downtown businesses in Fall River. This commerative booklet shows before and after shots of some of the buildings.

Firestone Fire 1941

Firestone Fire, Fall River, Massachusetts, October 11, 1941. What was originally the American Print Works mill went up in a huge inferno. Millions of dollars of U.S. Government rubber was lost, just several weeks before Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry into WWII. Firestone had only occupied the building for about three years, but would remain in the rest of the complex into the 1960s. The company made gas masks and other rubber items for the war effort.