What fire memorial will look like.
Trying to help victims of the fire.
The morning after the fire.
Plaque at the site of the fire.
The Cocoanut Grove fire, on Nov. 28, 1942, in which 492 patrons died in America’s worst nightclub fire, will be memorialized by a permanent monument in Statler Park, in Boston’s Bay Village neighbor. It will be dedicated next September.
City Council President Ed Flynn, representatives of the Boston Fire Department and descendants of the victims joined Mayor Michelle Wu to break ground for the monument Nov. 28.
