Mrs. Mekelburg, who turned 100 on Tuesday, was one of only two known remaining survivors of the Cocoanut Grove fire when she died Thursday in her NewBridge on the Charles senior living home in Dedham.

Two survivors were at the event ... A Texas playwright wrote “Inferno: Fire at the Cocoanut Grove 1942,” which debuted in Boston in February 2016. Two writers said in 2015 that they ...

Plans to build a large-scale memorial to the 492 people who perished in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire ... 15-year busboy was the youngest survivor of the fire. It was embedded in the sidewalk ...

COCONUT GROVE, Fla. – A family of 11 is grappling with the aftermath of a devastating fire that tore through their Coconut Grove duplex on Christmas Eve, leaving them homeless but grateful for ...

MIAMI – A family in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood is trying to rebuild after a devastating house fire on Christmas Eve. Seventeen-year-old Helena Martinez showed Local 10 News the ...

One of the survivors of Boston’s Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942 (492 dead) was a 21-year-old Coast Guardsman, Clifford A. Johnson. Third-degree burns covered 40% of his skin, second-degree burns 15 ...

Her book, "The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire, A Boston Tragedy," details the events of the night and the lingering effects of the fire. While the as-yet unsolved fire's origins have been dissected ...