On June 17, 1972, a fire broke out at the Hotel Vendome on Commonwealth Avenue. It would be the first of four alarms required to extinguish the raging fire It took nearly three hours to stop the blaze. Fire Lieutenant John Hanbury, along with eight other firefighters were killed without warning from a collapse during overhaul.
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