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Beverly Hills Supper Club fire
The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky, is the third deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. It occurred on the night of May 28, 1977, during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. A total of 165 people died and more than 200 were injured as a result of the blaze. It was the deadliest fire in the United States since 1944, when 168 people were killed in the Hartford circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut.〔Beitler, Stu (October 22, 2007) (Southgate, KY Nightclub Fire Disaster, May 1977 | GenDisasters ... Genealogy in Tragedy, Disasters, Fires, Floods ). .gendisasters.com. Retrieved on 2013-05-28.〕
==The club==
The Beverly Hills was a major attraction, less than ten miles (15 km) outside Cincinnati, just across the Ohio River in Southgate, Kentucky, on US 27, near what would later become its interchange with Interstate 471. It drew its talent from Las Vegas, Nashville, Hollywood and New York, among other places. The site had been a popular nightspot and illegal gambling house as early as 1926; Ohio native Dean Martin had been a blackjack dealer there.〔Weintraub, Jerry and Cohen, Rich (2010) ''When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead'', Grand Central Publishing, ISBN 0446568937.〕 It had reopened under the then-current 1970s owners/management in 1971〔Wallace, H. Lew (1991) ("Beverly Hills Nightclub" ) ''Kentucky Encyclopedia'' (Online Edition). University of Kentucky.〕 and was considered an elegant, upscale venue that attracted both top-notch talent and top-notch clientele.
Several additions had been built onto the original structure consistently through the 1970s and finished by 1976, creating a sprawling, non-linear complex of function rooms and service areas.〔 The resulting complex was roughly square in shape, and though it was not situated in a north-south direction, reports of the fire have tended to assign those points to points in the complex for ease of reference. Assuming this system, the front entrance of the complex lay at the southern point of the compass. Along the southern wall, to the east of the building entrance, was a small event room called the Zebra Room where the fire was first discovered. At the opposite, northern end of the building lay the Garden Room, which occupied the northwestern and north-central area of the northern wall, and the Cabaret Room, which jutted out from the northeastern corner of the building. A long narrow interior corridor connected the Zebra Room to the other spaces along the eastern side of the building, terminating at the garden area, just past the Cabaret Showroom area. A number of other event and services spaces were scattered throughout the rest of the building, with some rooms leading into each other, some leading into interior hallways, and some leading to the outside of the building. A partial second story covered approximately the southern third of the building, sitting above the main entrance, Zebra Room, and main dining room; it held two more small event rooms made of six smaller rooms conjoined, collectively labeled the Crystal Rooms.〔
Though the building's frame and ceiling tiling was classified as non-combustible, the Beverly Hills Supper Club made substantial use of wooden building materials, including floor joints for the two-story portion of the complex and framing on interior hallways.〔 It was decorated throughout with highly-flammable carpeting and wood wall paneling;〔 event rooms also used wooden tables and supports, as well as tablecloths, curtains, and a variety of other small combustible materials.〔 The building did not have a fire-suppression sprinkler system installed—at the time, these were not required in venues such as the Supper Club—〔 nor did it have an alarm system or smoke detectors.〔 In addition, the majority of the paths of egress in each event room led not to the outside of the building, but to a variety of narrow interior corridors and service spaces.〔
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