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Babbs Switch fire
The Babbs Switch fire on December 24, 1924 killed thirty-six people in a one-room school house at Babbs Switch, Oklahoma. Whole families died, and more than half the dead were children. According to the National Fire Protection Association, it is the sixth-deadliest school fire on record in the United States.〔("School Fires With 10 or More Deaths," ) ''National Fire Protection Association,'' Updated January 2013, Retrieved January 20, 2015.〕
==Fire==
The fire broke out during a Christmas Eve party attended by over 200 people.〔"The Hobart School Fire," ''Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association,'' Vol. 18, no. 3 January 1925 ()〕 A Christmas tree decorated with lighted candles stood at the front of the room, and presents were placed on the tree to be distributed to the children in attendance at the end of the program. The fire began when a teenage student dressed as Santa Claus was removing presents from the tree to give to the children.〔Oklahoma Inspection Bureau, ("Report on the Babbs Switch, Oklahoma School Fire December 24, 1924," ), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1925. Retrieved January 20, 2015.〕 The flames ignited paper decorations, tinsel, and dry needles and spread quickly to the tree, stage, and the greater structure of the building. People rushed to the building's single door, which opened inward and was soon jammed with people. Escape through the windows was blocked because they were covered with secure metal screens to prevent vandals from breaking into the school.〔Keeping, Juliana.("Deadly 1924 Christmas Eve fire in Oklahoma brought reform," ) ''The Oklahoman,'' December 24, 2014〕 One boy was able to escape through a window because someone succeeded in prying open a corner of one of the screens.〔
The dead and injured were transported by car to Hobart, the nearest sizable town, and a makeshift morgue was set up in a downtown building.〔"(Christmas Eve 2014 Marked The 90th Anniversary of School Fire That Claimed 36 Lives, )" ''Mangum Star-News,'' January 6, 2015〕
The next day, 32 people were reported dead, and 37 injured were reported in Hobart hospitals.〔 Four died of their injuries, bringing the number of dead to 36.〔 One child, three-year-old Mary Edens, was reported as missing, but her body was not found. Her Aunt alice Noah, who escaped from the building but died several days later, said that she recalled carrying Mary out of the building and handing her to someone she did not know.〔Grelen, Jay.("Journalist honors pledge to family of missing girl," ) ''The Oklahoman'', December 24, 1999, Accessed January 19, 2015.〕
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