Joelma Building
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Joelma Building is a 25 floor skyscraper in Sao Paulo, Brazil, located at 225 Avenue Nine of July. It was the site of a famous disaster, as at 8:50am on February 1st, 1974, an air conditioner exploded, starting a fire. Due to the fact that highly flammable materials had been used to construct it, the entire building was engulfed in flames within 20 minutes. By the time the fire was extinguished at 1:30pm, of the 765 persons in the building, 227 had been killed.
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- FILM: Incendio - 10 minute filmed documentary detailing this deadly conflagration, and why it all went wrong.
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