The Knights of Columbus Hotel fire was a structure fire that occurred during World War II on Saturday, December 12, 1942, in St. John's, Newfoundland in a hostel operated by the Knights of Columbus, a Roman Catholic fraternal organization. A total of 99 people were killed. The fire was likely an incidence of enemy sabotage orchestrated by agents of Nazi Germany. It was one of a number of suspicious fires in St. John's that winter. If this is true, these fires would be among the few successful (even if minor) Axis attacks on North America.