Pioneer Hotel fire in Tucson
- Jack Sheaffer / Arizona Daily Star
- Updated
Victims are removed from the front entrance to the Pioneer Hotel in Dec. 1970.
Jack Sheaffer / Arizona Daily StarAs featured on
When the Pioneer Hotel in downtown Tucson burned days before Christmas in 1970, 29 people died.
The Pioneer Hotel fire in downtown Tucson on Dec. 20, 1970, resulted in 29 deaths.
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