Editing Lansing, Michigan (section)

====Major fires====
The [[Kerns Hotel fire]] on December 11, 1934, was the deadliest in the city's history. Perhaps thirty-four people died in the fire, although the hotel register was also destroyed making an exact count impossible.

On February 8, 1951, the [[Elliott-Larsen Building]] was intentionally set on fire by a state office employee. The following morning, the seventh floor collapsed down to the next level, which destroyed a large number of state historical records.<ref>{{cite news |first=Bill |last=Castanier |title=Memories of Lansing's most devastating structural fire |location=Lansing, Michigan |work=City Pulse |url=https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/memories-of-lansings-most-devastating-structural-fire,15571 |date=February 10, 2021 |access-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-date=April 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430042821/https://www.lansingcitypulse.com/stories/memories-of-lansings-most-devastating-structural-fire,15571 |url-status=live}}</ref>