119 people died at the Winecoff in the worst hotel fire in U.S. history. When the fire started on the third floor at 3:30AM, many guests didn’t even know it until their rooms filled with smoke. Fire ladders reached only to the 7th floor of the 15-story hotel. Arnold Hardy, student at GA Tech, won a Pulitzer for a picture he snapped of a woman in mid-air who had jumped from the 11th floor.
She miraculously survived, but 119 jumped to their deaths or were burned beyond recognition.
