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Gillingham Fair fire disaster
The Gillingham Fair fire disaster (also known as the Fireman's Wedding disaster) took place on 11 July 1929 in Gillingham, Kent, England, when a firefighting demonstration went wrong, and resulted in the deaths of 15 men and boys.
==Background==
Each summer in the 1920s, a fair was organized in Gillingham Park to raise funds for the local St Bartholomew's Hospital. The traditional highlight of the event, which took place at the end of the festivities, was a demonstration of firefighting and rescue by the Gillingham Fire Brigade.
Each year, a house of wood and canvas, three stories and 40 feet high, was constructed in the park. The structure was the venue for a mock wedding reception at which two firemen, costumed as a bride and groom, would be entertaining their "guests" (other firemen, and boys recruited from local naval cadet and sea scout groups) when a fire broke out, necessitating the rescue of the occupants from the upper levels of the building. In reality, flares and smoke bombs were used to give the illusion of the structure being ablaze; only after everybody had been "rescued" from the building was a real fire set, to enable the fire brigade to demonstrate their firefighting skills.
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