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The Strand Theater Fire was a fire on March 10, 1941 in a vacant movie theater in Brockton, Massachusetts that killed 13 firefighters and injured 20 more.

The fire started in the theater's basement and was discovered by a custodian. The first alarm sounded at 12:38 a.m., followed by a second and then a general alarm. The fire worked its way up from the basement through the balcony to the auditorium roof while firefighters attacked it from inside the theater. The roof collapsed on the firefighters in the building when the steel roof trusses, weakened and distorted by heat, buckled and failed.

A memorial to the firefighters was erected in 2010.