Hotwater Has Posted A Big Pic Of This Disaster In The "Post A Pic Of Anything" Thread..... Cheers Glen.
The Coconut Grove fire erupted on Nov. 28, 1942, and killed 492 people, many of whom couldn’t escape through exits that were locked to prevent patrons from skipping out on their bills. It was the second-deadliest single-building fire in American history behind the Iroquois Theater fire, which killed 602 people in Chicago in 1903. I’ve always been fascinated by the fire because there never was a definitive cause, the Boston Fire Department concluded the cause of the fire was of unknown origin. The aspects of the fire, the speed in which it spread, and the fire dynamics. The tremendous death toll, the official Boston Fire Department figure is 490 although most put the number at 492. 493 If you include an Iowa farmer who was badly burned but survived the fire only to die 1 year later when the tractor he was driving tipped over, spilling fuel all over him and burning him alive.
