Fire swept The Breakers in 1925, reducing the iconic hotel to rubble. But the hotel would be rebuilt as a larger and more ...
It's the 100th anniversary of the 1925 fire that leveled The Breakers as wind-swept embers burned a path across the island.
They’d only disembarked from the flight to Palm Beach early that day, when once again they were strapped into airline seats.
But when cinders from the now-raging Breakers’ fire set the Palm Beach Hotel’s roof ablaze, guests barely reached their rooms in time to save small articles. The adjacent shops burned ...