Pricely Fire

The Pricely Fire was an incident occurring in Roccocino on May 5th, 1013. The fire destroyed the Pricely Exchange, which had been responsible for documenting and taxing all import/export operations in Roccocino. Its toll included 103 dead and 32 wounded.

Incident
At around midday, a commotion gathered around the building, and quickly became a crowd blocking entry and exit from the Grand Market. Entries and exits collapsed quickly, being largely wooden structures. Fleeing became impossible, and many victims flung themselves from windows to escape the flames.

Authorities later debated whether the incident seemed artificially provoked, as the high casualties were due to it being so terribly inescapable. However, no artificial means were found that would account for a targeted or accelerated fire.

Aftermath
Once the fire had concluded, the death toll went up to 103 dead, 45 of which died jumping out of the building. 32 of the jumpers survived. Only 8 of those within the building did.

The building was burned all the way to its foundations. These were revealed to connect to a wide underground network of tunnels. Health regulators and stonemasons quickly labelled them as dangerous, and they were closed to all access. On top of these foundations, the Percolo family built the Central Exchange, which was inaugurated in the year 1019.