Sofa Super Store and its owners have agreed to pay about $1.9 million to settle claims brought by the families of nine Charleston firefighters who died fighting an inferno at the West Ashley showroom ...

The final National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health report on Charleston's Sofa Super Store fire lays out 43 recommendations for preventing such a tragedy from happening again, from better ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Losing nine firefighters in the Sofa Super Store fire was a terrible tragedy. Afterwards, the leadership of the Charleston Fire Department was under intense scrutiny, and the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A Charleston furniture store where nine firefighters died four years ago has agreed to pay their families nearly $2 million to settle wrongful death lawsuits, an attorney for the ...

Nine Charleston, SC, firefighters died in a fire in a furniture store on June 18, 2007. In the preparation of this article, Firehouse® Magazine was given permission to talk to only a select number of ...

The most urgent of 11 recommendations in a long-awaited report is that state and local communities adopt and strictly adhere to current national model building and fire safety codes. Oct 31, 2010 ...

Charleston, SC- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its technical study of the Sofa Super Store fire on Thursday analyzing the blaze and offering recommendations. The ...

The City of Charleston is expected to begin construction in the next month on a new fire station at the site of the 2007 Sofa Super Store fire. The fire at the furniture store on June 18, 2007, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- More than a dozen firefighters who rushed into the burning furniture superstore knew -- or thought they knew -- two things: employees were trapped inside and the blaze was small ...

CHARLESTON, SC (AP/WIS) - State officials have handed the Charleston Fire Department four citations for violating firefighter safety. The state Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Four years after a furniture store fire claimed the lives of nine Charleston firefighters, Sofa ...