Kiss nightclub fire started between 2:00 and 2:30 ( BRST ) on 27 January 2013 in Santa Maria , Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil , killing 242 people and injuring at least 630 others . It is the second most-devastating fire disaster in the history of Brazil — surpassed only by the Great North American Circus fire of December 1961 , which killed 503 people in Niterói , and the deadliest nightclub fire since the December 2000 fire that killed 309 people in Luoyang , China . It is also the third-deadliest nightclub fire in history , behind the Luoyang Christmas fire and the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942
Cocoanut Grove fire
Cocoanut Grove fire
Kiss nightclub fire