Fire Escape Collapse, also known as Fire on Marlborough Street, is a monochrome photograph by Stanley Forman which received the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976 [1] and the title of World Press Photo of the Year. [2]

Oct 10, 2024 · A nineteen-year-old and her two-year-old niece and goddaughter are hurled off a collapsing fire escape during an apartment fire on Marlborough Street. The two waited with firefighter Robert O’Neil for a rescue ladder to reach them.

Jun 11, 2017 · On July 22, 1975 a fire raged in one of the apartment buildings on Marlborough Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Nineteen-year old Diana Bryant and her two-year-old goddaughter, Tiare Jones were trapped and awaiting rescue on a fire escape.

This is the location where the famous "Fire Escape Collapse" photograph was taken. It is situated behind 129 Marlborough Street in Boston, Massachusetts, in Public Alley 419. The photo, which is also known as "Fire on Marlborough Street", was taken by Boston Herald photographer Stanley Forman on July 22nd, 1975.

His story began on July 22, 1975, as Forman walked past the assignment desk at the Herald American and heard the fire department put out an alarm — a “box” in the vernacular. Here, in Forman’s words, is what happened next.

Oct 12, 2024 · Fire Escape Collapse—also known as Fire on Marlborough Street—is a striking black-and-white photograph by Stanley Forman that won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976 and was named World Press Photo of the Year.

Nineteen-year-old Diana Bryant and her two-year-old niece and goddaughter Tiare Jones are hurled off a collapsing fire escape during an apartment fire on Marlborough Street. The two waited with firefighter Robert O’Neil for a rescue ladder to reach them.

Mar 13, 2020 · The photograph shows 19-year-old Diana Bryant and her two-year-old goddaughter Tiare Jones falling from the collapsed fire escape of a burning apartment building on Marlborough Street in Boston on July 22, 1975.

Apr 3, 2024 · Fire Escape Collapse, also known as Fire on Marlborough Street, is a black-and-white photograph by Stanley Forman which received the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976.

On July 22, 1975, in Boston, 19-year-old Diana Bryant and her 2-year-old goddaughter Tiare Jones fled a blaze in a Marlborough Street building by climbing onto the fire escape. It collapsed before firefighters could reach them.