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"A day doesn't go by that we don't think about it," says owner Jeff Derderian. Survivors and victims' families can't forget either.
Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, who owned The Station nightclub, claim that sound foam installed in club was actually cheap packing foam that helped the deadly fire spread
This coming Saturday night, the CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours is scheduled to run a full 60-minute episode looking at the Station Fire in Rhode Island on February 20, 2003, which killed 100 and injured more than 200 others.
Fused by pain, Station fire survivors, loved ones mark 18th anniversary
WEST WARWICK Survivors. Brothers. Friends. Lawyers. Children. Lovers. Dozens upon dozens of people made their way to the Station Fire Memorial Park on Saturday to reflect, remember and to grieve with others bonded by the horror and loss of that frigid night 18 years earlier when the Station nightclub was transformed into an inferno.
Jody King arrived in the morning with a snow plow.
“I plow every storm, King said. It’s my penance, because I didn’t get here on time.”
It was 11:07 p.m., Feb. 20, 2003, when pyrotechnics sparked a blaze that quickly crept up the acoustic foam glued to the nightclub’s ceilings and walls during a Great White show. King arrived between 11:30 and 11:40 p.m., too late to save his younger brother, Tracy King, a bouncer at the club credited with pulling people from the building before being overcome by smoke and flames.