Disaster · 1942

492 Dead in 12 Minutes: The Cocoanut Grove Fire

On a Saturday night in 1942, a sixteen-year-old busboy in a Boston nightclub lights a match to see what he is doing. Twelve minutes later, four hundred and ninety-two people are dead. The nightclub is called the Cocoanut Grove.

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