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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

The Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., was one of those huge showrooms out on the highway. Packed with furniture. Maze-like aisles. No sprinklers. A terrible place to fight a fire. On June 18, 2007 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. --Had automatic sprinklers been in place, the fire at the Sofa Super Store would have been confined to the loading dock area where the fire started, NIST investigators said Thursday.

Charleston remembers the Charleston 9, 18 years after devastating Sofa Super Store fire Almost two decades ago, an unthinkable tragedy happened when nine Charleston firefighters lost their lives ...