* 1949 – The Mann Gulch fire kills 13 firefighters in Montana.

Ships with the Mk 26 GMLS, and late marks of the Mk 10 GMLS aboard the " Belknap "- class, could accommodate ASROC in these power-loaded launchers ( the Mk 13 GMLS was not able to fire the weapon, as the launcher rail was too short ).

alt = A map showing a line of 13 ships, mostly dismasted and two on fire.

When Danican's poorly trained men attacked, on 13 Vendémiaire, 1795 — October 5, 1795, in the calendar used in France, at the time — Napoleon ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot into the mob, an act that became known as the " whiff of grapeshot ".

They failed to find a route through and in the process were caught by heavy fire and lost 13 tanks.

* 1987 – Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10, 000 – 15, 000 demonstrators at Malacañan Palace, Manila, killing 13.

* 1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13.

* 1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas ; five people are killed and ten are wounded.

* 2011 – 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.

On 13 February 2008, fire destroyed the fishing factory and the four generators that supplied power to the island.

There are 89, 500 local governments, including 3, 033 counties, 19, 492 municipalities, 16, 500 townships, 13, 000 school districts, and 37, 000 other special districts that deal with issues like fire protection.

* January 13 – A fire at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, U. S. A. kills 170.

* March 13 – Dunblane massacre: Unemployed former shopkeeper Thomas Hamilton walks into the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland and opens fire, killing 16 infant school pupils and one teacher before fatally shooting himself.

* May 1 – 4 – American Civil War – The Battle of Chancellorsville: General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces with 13, 000 Confederate casualties, among them Stonewall Jackson ( lost to friendly fire ), and 17, 500 Union casualties.

** In Sebokeng, South Africa, gunmen fire on mourners attending the funeral of a leader of the African National Congress, killing 13 people.

* October 19 – 13 Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip.

* February 13 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy kills 64.

* June 13 – A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

** January 13 – Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.

* June – A fire breaks out in the Song Dynasty Chinese capital of Hangzhou, destroying 13, 000 homes and forcing many to flee to nearby hills.

* May 13 – the Saint-Denis basilica, near Paris, is damaged by a fire.

The Palmer House hotel burned to the ground in the fire 13 days after its grand opening.

At a conference on 13 October Haig and the army commanders agreed that attacks would stop until the weather improved and roads extended, to carry more artillery and ammunition forward for better fire support.

The fire consumed about 13, 200 houses and 87 churches, including St. Paul's Cathedral.

Before the end of February, a fire destroyed part of the Imperial palace.

# One day after the Reichstag fire on February 27, 1933, President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg, acting at Hitler's request and on the basis of the emergency powers in article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, issued the Reichstag Fire Decree.

On the evening of 27 February 1933, a fire was set in the Reichstag building.

During the siege, on 8 February 1913, the Russian pilot N. de Sackoff, flying for the Greeks, became the first pilot ever shot down in combat, when his biplane was hit by ground fire following a bomb run on the walls of Fort Bizani.

However, on February 22, 2003, one of the production facilities caught fire and was badly damaged.

On 22 February 1975, in an ambush in the Lomas de Zamora suburb of Buenos Aires, three policemen ( First Sergeant Nicolás Cardozo, Corporal Roberto Roque Fredes and Constables Eugenio Rodriguez and Abel Pascuzzi ) were killed after their patrol car came under fire from Montoneros guerrillas.

On 15 February 1977, army corporal Osvaldo Ramón Ríos was killed after his patrol came under fire from a group of Montoneros that had barricaded themselves inside a house in the Ezpeleta suburb of Buenos Aires.

The fire at Christiansborg Palace in February 1794 also had a dampening effect on his career, for seven of the ten monumental paintings he had already delivered to the grandiose project were destroyed.

In February 1985 Klan members and a Klan sympathizer pleaded guilty to federal and state charges related to the fire.

* February 21 – In Dhaka, East Pakistan ( present-day Bangladesh ) police open fire on a procession of students, killing 4 people and starting a country-wide protest which leads to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan.

* February 8 – General Motors sues NBC, after Dateline NBC allegedly rigged 2 crashes showing that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places.

* February 23 – A small fire occurs on the Russian space station Mir.

* February 17 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, kills 72 people.

* February 28 – In Bucharest, a violent demonstration takes place, during which the bolşevic group opens fire on the army and protesters.

* February 23 – A fire at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, kills 36 people ( 35 of whom are children ).

* February 27 – Russian troops fire upon a crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule over Poland, killing 5 protesters.

* February 22 – Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian-proposed cease fire agreement.

* February 12, 1814 – A fire destroys the Custom House in London.

* February 16 – Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan.

* February 27 – Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire ( see Reichstag fire ).

* February 28 – The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in response to the Reichstag fire, nullifying many German civil liberties.