Club fire tragedy: speaking out
Comments on the nightclub fire investigation, which led to indictments Tuesday against the two owners of The Station nightclub and the tour manager for the band Great White:
"They're disturbed. They're disappointed. It's a tough day for them."
-- Jeffrey Pine, attorney for Jeffrey Derderian, who owned The Station nightclub with his brother, Michael Derderian.
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"This is a lynch mob, no pun intended."
-- Barbara Magness, said of the anger that survivors and victims' family members displayed at the meeting with Attorney General Patrick Lynch. Magness lost a son and daughter-in-law: Steve Mancini, a part-time bouncer at the club, and Andrea Mancini, who took tickets at the door.
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"I'm certainly sure he's not going to let us down and say 'Merry Christmas."'
-- Charles Sweet, of Pembroke, Mass., said before the meeting with Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch about The Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, R.I. Sweet's 28-year-old son, Shawn, was among the 100 people who died.
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"That night it was convergence of so many wrongs that equaled a catastrophic event. Today we are here, and it's assumed that we are going to hear who is legally to blame for their wrongs."
-- Deborah LeMay, 29, of West Warwick, a fire survivor who went to Tuesday's meeting with Lynch.
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"For the most part it is just not knowing what happened to some of these people. That's been the hardest part most of these months."
-- Donna Reis, North Providence, R.I., who lost her fiance, 39-year-old Carl Howorth, of Norton, Mass.
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