The Station nightclub plea deal

[Dan Strassberg]

Actually, New York City enacted new laws immediately after the Cocoanut
Grove fire with the intent of preventing a similar tragedy there. I remember
the big signs that appeared in every restaurant stating "Occupancy by more
than xxx persons is dangerous and unlawful." I think many decades passed
before New York had a restaurant fire that claimed many lives and I recall
that it happened in a private club and that many fewer than the Cocoanut
Grove's 242 fatalities were recorded.

I would be surprised to learn that New York City was the only jurisdiction
that enacted laws on occupany of public places immediately after the
Cocoanut Grove fire. OTOH, I have no idea whether Rhode Island or any
community in Rhode Island enacted such a law.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
eFax 707-215-6367

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Subject: Re: The Station nightclub plea deal
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> The Cocoanut Grove fire took place in Boston.  Laws may have been
> passed, but they were passed in Massachusetts, not Rhode Island.
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