Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire - 492 Dead 11/28/42 - BFD - Box 1521 - 5 Alarms

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November 28, 1942 - 492 perished in a downtown Boston nightclub fire.  The fire was allegedly started by a busboy who lit a match to change a light bulb.  Assigned units for Box 1521 (Church and Winchester St) were:

2220  1st Alarm    E26,E10,E22,E3                L13,L17      Dist Chief 7      Div Chief 2
2223  2nd Alarm  E35,E15,E7,E8,E43          L3,L15      Water Tower2    Dist Chief 8
2223  3rd Alarm    E39,E34,E12,E33,E32,E2 
2224  4th Alarm    E21,E16,E9,E23,E8          L12                                    Dist Chief 3
2302  5th Alarm    E37,E20,E53,E18,E50

http://bostonfirehistory.org/firestory11281942.html
http://www.celebrateboston.com/disasters/cocoanut-grove-fire.htm
http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/Cocoanut_Grove_fire








 
grumpy grizzly

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Boston College was scheduled to play in a major bowl game but they were defeated by Holy Cross, ironically another Jesuit college. Plans for a celebration were cancelled after the BC loss or the death toll would have been higher. Box 1514 was transmitted, arriving units found a car fire. E7/L17 were returning when citizens informed them of the Coconut Grove incident. Like the Happy Land incident in the Bronx the fire was knocked down quickly but the damage was done. Many people were trapped in the revolving doors, this is why there are outward doors next to revolving doors. My mother was a nurse @ Boston City Hospital that night, she never talked about it. Many medical advances came from this incident. This fire was two weeks after 6 Boston FF's were killed in a collapse @ Box 5- 6153. Bad couple of weeks for the citizens of Boston.
 
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