Fires in two boarding facilities kill 34 residents.
On October 4, 1980, a fire at the Little Friends, Inc. Community Living Facility in Naperville, Illinois, killed three residents. Four months later, 31 residents died in a fire at the Beachview Rest Home in Keansburg, New Jersey. These are just two of the boarding home fires in which 138 residents died over the past three years. Across the United States, 300,000 similar facilities house two million residents.
D000368:Aged; D005390:Fires / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D009515:New Jersey; D012112:Residential Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*