GRIM HISTORY OF FATALITIES

THE INFERNO THAT killed a dozen people in the Bronx Thursday is the deadliest fire since the 1990 blaze at the Happy Land social club in the Bronx that killed 87 people. Here are some of the worst fatal fires: On Dec. 5, 1876, flames sparked at the Brooklyn Theater during a sold-out performance, when a gas light ignited a canvas backdrop. The building had one staircase and no fire escapes, and 278 people died in the chaos. On March 25, 1911, a fire killed 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. It was one of the most infamous blazes in U.S. history. The exits were locked to keep workers inside, and many jumped out of upper-floor windows in an attempt to flee the flames. On Oct. 7, 1966, 12 firefighters were killed when the floor of the Wonder Drug store collapsed on E. 23rd St. at Broadway, as they were trying to make their way into a four-story brownstone on E. 22nd St. On Oct. 24, 1976, an unemployed salesman and a teenager killed 25 and injured dozens more when they spread gasoline in the Puerto Rican Social Club in the Bronx. The arsonists covered the building’s only staircase in the incendiary fluid, leaving partygoers to escape through the second-story window. On March 25, 1990, arsonist Julio Gonzalez used $1 worth of gasoline to torch the Happy Land social club, after a bouncer booted him out for getting into a fight with an ex-girlfriend. He killed 87 people in the blaze, and died in prison on Sept. 13, 2016. On March 7, 2007, a fire started by an space heater’s electrical cord ravaged an apartment building on Woodycrest Ave. in the Bronx, killing nine children and one adult. The building’s owner, Moussa Magassa, lost five of his young children, while Mamadou Soumare lost his wife and their four children, two of them infants. On March 21, 2015, an early-morning blaze sparked by a hot plate left on for the Sabbath tore through the Borough Park home of Gayle and Gabriel Sassoon. Seven of their children died. On April 23, 2017, a fire in a Queens village home killed four children, Chayce Lipford, 2, Rashawn Matthews, 10, Hada Foxworth, 16, and Melody Edwards, 17, and one adult, Destiny Dones, 20. •On Dec. 18, 2017, Aliza Azan and her three kids, Henrietta, 3, Yitzah, 7, and Moshe, 11, perished in a blaze sparked by a menorah in their Sheepshead Bay house. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS