‘It was war,”: Remembering the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire on its 49 anniversary

SOUTHGATE, Ky. (WXIX) – A community in Northern Kentucky was forever changed after a devastating fire ripped through a popular nightclub, claiming more than 150 lives.

Thursday marks the anniversary of the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire of May 28, 1977, one of the deadliest tragedies to happen in the Tri-State area.

Thousands of people gathered at the Southgate, Kentucky, nightclub to enjoy an evening of drinks and music by popular singer and actor John Davidson before the evening’s plans were thwarted by catastrophe…

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