November 21, 1969
Four fire fighters are killed in Wichita, Kansas. On the night of November 21, the fire chief, chief fire inspector and two fire fighters were killed in a mass disaster when the roof of a burning building collapsed. The four fire fighters had entered the burning repair building of an auto dealership to seek out and extinguish a blaze in a space between a false ceiling and a roof. The roof caved in on them unexpectedly, trapping them beneath falling steel beams and debris.