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...will bring along a special metal bar on which to demonstrate the cutting power of torches used in clearing away wreckage, and some of his lecture will be devoted to experiences in the Cocoanut Grove and East Boston fires. As Medical Examiner for the Boston Fire Department, Dr. Spellman was intimately associated with both disasters...
Assistant firemen will aid him in showing how such equipment as a pullmotor, various kinds of gas masks, and types of stretchers are used. Applying first aid to victims, a procedure which is said to have saved numerous lives in the Cocoanut Grove holocaust, will also be covered thoroughly in the talk. Under Walton's direction, the University ARP course was completely revamped and Red Cross courses applying strictly to air raid emergencies have been devised for those interested...
...women fought their way toward the revolving door; the push of bodies jammed it. Near by was another door; it was locked tight. There were other exits, but few Cocoanut Grove patrons knew about them. The lights went out. There was nothing to see now except flame, smoke and weird moving torches that were men & women with clothing and hair afire...
...Cocoanut Grove patrons pushed and shoved, fell and were trampled. Joyce Spector was knocked under a table, crawled on hands & knees, somehow was pushed through an open doorway into the street. A chorus boy herded a dozen people downstairs into a refrigerator. A few men & women crawled out windows; a few escaped by knocking out a glass brick wall. But most of them, including Bridegroom John O'Neil, were trapped...
...charnel houses for the night, 484 dead were counted; it was the most disastrous U.S. fire since 571 people were killed in Chicago's Iroquois Theater holocaust in 1903. One Boston newspaper ran a two-word banner line: BUSBOY BLAMED. But the busboy had not put up the Cocoanut Grove's tinder-box decorations, nor was he responsible for the fact that Boston's laws do not require nightclubs to have fireproof fixtures, sprinkler systems or exit markers...