True, but the Cocoanut Grove set standards to avoid/minimize such tragedies, and greed, as in RI, and liberals that know better than the rest of us, as in Oakland, resulted from the failure to heed the lessons of Cocoanut Grove.
Stupidity, too. The ceiling in the Station nightclub was too low and not flame-retardant. The wall covering was also flammable.
There was also no sprinkler system in the rather small venue of 4,000+ square feet as it was built in 1946 and deemed exempt. It was a “perfect storm” of a devastating fire.