Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Los Angeles, California, United States || Dorothy Mae Hotel

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Within days 140.000 people had left the area to escape the release of small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment.
(28 March 1979)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2083 other events about 5734 people in 6443 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Dorothy Mae Hotel

821 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Saturday 4th of September 1982 (x) — Mass murderer Humberto De La Torre torches his uncle's hotel after a dispute.
Nineteen people including an unborn baby and its mother perished as the fire roared through the 50-year-old three-story structure. Thirty-six other people were injured and within 10 days six of them had died. At least nine victims were relatives of Humberto de La Torre. His uncle Mateo survived. Humberto de la Torre was arrested the following December in Texas, pleaded guilty to 25 counts of murder and in 1985 was sentenced to 625 years in prison.