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The Cocoanut Grove Fire
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Coconut Grove, Massachusetts - The Fires of the Day
Most people who survived the fire had managed to get out of the building before the flames reached the doorways. Pouring a fire through such exits made it impossible for humans to pass simultaneously through these exits safely. In pouring through these low-cee-linked passageways, the mass of gaseous material passed so close to such persons as to overcome them. Even though the city of Boston had just been through a big drill about exactly such an occurrence, responding to a catastrophe of this size was still really challenging. Many of the streets around the club were small, some of them were paved with cobblestones and they quickly became jammed with emergency vehicles and people.
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