Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, a fire that killed 490 people and injured hundreds more. It remains the deadliest disaster in Boston’s history and is the ...

A horrific inferno swept through a packed Boston nightclub 80 years ago tonight, killing hundreds of revelers and forever changing the way the nation plans for, builds for and reacts to fires.

Roslindale native Charles Capone stopped by the Cocoanut Grove the night of Nov. 28, 1942, to wish a farewell to some of his buddies who were going off to fight in World War II. “A pleasant ...

Over 80 years after the Cocoanut Grove fire claimed 490 lives and singularly revolutionized fire safety standards and burn treatments, families of survivors and victims of the devastating fire ...

In the blink of an eye the Cocoanut Grove, one of Boston's swankiest nightclubs, became an unimaginable inferno — trapping hundreds of panicked victims as they jammed the club's exits.

On Nov. 28, 1942, a fire broke out at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, killing nearly 500 people. On Monday at 3 p.m. Mayor Michelle Wu, City Council President Ed Flynn, and Fire Commissioner Paul ...

BOSTON - A ceremony marked the 80th anniversary of the Cocoanut Grove Fire in Boston Monday, the deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. On November 28, 1942, 490 people died and hundreds were ...

BOSTON — More than 80 years after the tragic fire at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, a new memorial is planned near the site. A groundbreaking was held Nov. 26, two days before the fire's 81st ...

More than eight decades after the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire shook Boston and overturned national fire safety protocols, community members broke ground Sunday on a memorial honoring the nearly ...