Worcester will commemorate this week 26 years since the Cold Storage Warehouse fire, a five-alarm blaze that took the lives of six firefighters.

The city will hold a five-minute ceremony at the Franklin Street Fire Station on 266 Franklin St., the former site of the warehouse.

The ceremony will start at 6 p.m., last five minutes and will feature a wreath-laying, a prayer and a moment of silence, according to Thomas Matthews, a spokesperson for City Manager Eric D. Batista. There will not be any speakers this year, Matthews told MassLive.

What happened at the Cold Storage Warehouse?

On the evening of Friday, Dec. 3, 1999, a shoving match between two unhoused people occupying the building caused a candle to fall onto a pile of clothing, according to a U.S. Fire Administration technical

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