
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, September 25, 1993                   TAG: 9309250183
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BOSTON                                LENGTH: Short

COCOANUT GROVE FIRE BEING RE-INVESTIGATED

The city's fire department reopened its investigation Friday into one of the worst fires in U.S. history, 51 years after the burning of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub killed 492 people.

Investigators are mulling new evidence that the club's air conditioning system on the night of the Nov. 28, 1942, fire was filled with methyl chloride, a flammable alternative to the usual coolants.

Methyl chloride is a flammable gas that was used as a replacement for Freon as a refrigerant during World War II. - Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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