Brazil is mourning the 231 people tragically killed in a nightclub fire in Santa Maria this weekend. Since 2000, four notable nightclub blazes have killed more than 750 people. But these fires aren’t just a recent phenomenon; one of the earliest recorded incidents took place in 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, and the most lethal occurred in 1942 in Boston. Here is a roundup of some of the deadliest nightclub fires in history.
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