Disgruntled custodian sets off fire in north tower of New York’s World Trade Center 40 years ago this hour (Feb 13 1975)


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(Thursday, February 13, 1975, just before midnight EST) — A three-alarm fire deliberately set by a disgruntled custodian broke out tonight in the 11th-floor offices of the B.F. Goodrich Company in the north tower of the World Trade Center, and spread through an inner-service core to the ninth and 14th floors but caused no direct casualties.