HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) – A deadly circus fire that claimed the lives of 168 people was remembered at a ceremony Saturday. The Hartford Fire Department held a remembrance ceremony at the Hartford ...

More than a dozen children have been injured in a circus tent fire in the German town of Aldenhoven. According to a report by local media, 113 children were inside the tent at the time the fire broke ...

On the morning of July 6, 1944, Theresa Fulco woke up not feeling well. The heat in her apartment on Pleasant Street in Hartford was already rising and it was forecast to be a sweltering day. Her ...

I was almost four years old, but I still have vivid mental images of that day. My grandmother, my mother, my aunt Janet, my brother, and I had just sat down a couple of platform levels above the ...

PORTLAND >> For one young man, a 15-mile trip 70 years ago to the big city to see The Greatest Show on Earth was a chance to travel beyond his town’s rural confines to behold an exotic array of wild ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As soon as it was announced last year, TheaterWorks Hartford’s “Circus Fire” project became one of the most anticipated theater ...

(WFSB) - This weekend will mark 80 years since the deadly circus fire in Hartford. On July 6, 1944, 168 people died, and hundreds more were hurt after the Big Top went up in flames. The community is ...