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SUMMARY:Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire\, Southgate\, KY (1977)
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DESCRIPTION:The Beverly Hills Supper Club was remodeled and upgraded and o
 pened in 1971.  It had previously gone through many changes and the origin
 al building had burned in the late 1930′s.\nIt had changed hands\, sat v
 acant and been an off and on hot spot for several years until it was the p
 rimary club for top notch entertainment and high class amenities.\nOn May 
 28th\, 1977\, the place was packed with visitors that were expecting a nig
 ht of glamor and star entertainer John Davidson.  It is uncertain exactly 
 how many patrons were in attendance that evening\, but estimations put the
  number at approximately 3\,000 at the entire facility with 1300 in the Ca
 baret Room.  There were multiple events taking place in multiple rooms whi
 ch were all filled to or over capacity\, according to reports.\nIn the Cab
 aret Room alone\, people were squeezed in and sat in aisles and ramps that
  would be exit pathways.  Some of these ramps led to the stage and people 
 were placed there in order to get as many people into the room as possible
 .\nSmoke was first noticed in the Zebra Room by two waitresses sometime ar
 ound 2100 hours.  They  noticed a dense smoke in the room and they notifie
 d management.  The fire department was called within a few minutes and ext
 inguishers were used on the fire with no effectiveness.  Within 10 minutes
 \, the fire had spread to the Cabaret Room and things would turn tragic ve
 ry fast.\n\nHere is quote from one of the first arriving firefighters abou
 t what he saw\, “When I got to the inside doors\, which is about 30 feet
  inside the building\, I saw these big double doors\, and people were stac
 ked like cordwood. There were clear up to the top. They just kept diving o
 ut on each other trying to get out. I looked back over the pile of – it 
 wasn’t dead people\, there were dead and alive in that pile – and I we
 nt in and I just started to grab them two at a time and pull them off the 
 stack\, and drag them out…” \, Bruce Rath\, a Fort Thomas firefighter.
 \nThe results of this night were that 165 people lost their lives that nig
 ht.  The reports were not much different from the Cocoanut Grove fire some
  30 years prior.\n-Overcrowding of the facility\, namely the Cabaret Room.
   The room had a listed occupancy load of 615 -756 people.  That night\, i
 t was estimated that nearly 1300 people were in the room\, almost double t
 he allowed load.\n-For the size of the facility Kentucky law required that
  there should have been at least 27.5 exits for the occupant load\, there 
 were only 16.5.\n-The wiring was considered inadequate and it was stated t
 hat it would have never passed inspection by an electrician who inspected 
 the electrical work.\n-There were no fire walls to prohibit the spread of 
 fire from one area to another.\n-No sprinkler system and no audible fire a
 larm system.\n-The local volunteer fire department acknowledged that there
  were issues\, but had not ordered any of them to be corrected.  (I was un
 able to find out if the department had fire or building codes ordinances a
 t the time of the fire.)\n-There were reports of locked doors.\nThese fact
 ors are all too familiar.  We see the same failures in these large loss of
  life fires in assembly occupancies.  We sometimes take our inspections an
 d prevention activities lightly because it is not “fun” or interesting
  to some.  Remember these fires and the lives that have been lost because 
 of poor prevention measures and a lack of life safety measures in these bu
 ildings.\nBelow are some links where you can get more information and much
  of the sources for this post were from the Cincinnati Enquirer.\nUntil ne
 xt time\, stay safe\, do your inspections with conviction and stay low.\nh
 ttp://www.nfpa.org/assets/files/pdf/fisouthgate.pdf\n\nhttp://www.youtube.
 com/watch?v=rsCTBHn2KIc
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