Club Fire Tragedy: One Year Later
Services planned tonight to remember club fire anniversary
(West Warwick, Rhode Island-AP) -- It was one year ago today that hundreds of rock fans headed to The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, for what they thought would be a fun night of music and socializing.
It turned instead into a tragedy of staggering proportions.
Pyrotechnics used by the band Great White started a fast-moving blaze that would leave 100 people dead and some 200 others injured.
Tonight, survivors and relatives of victims will return to the site of the nation's fourth-deadliest nightclub fire for a memorial service, which will include 100 seconds of silence in honor of each victim.
At a memorial service in Cranston last night, bells tolled 100 times and speakers delivered messages of hope and transformation.
Many who attended brought photos of their lost loved ones or wore T-shirts adorned with their pictures.
Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri said the fire brought to the
state a wave of sadness and disbelief that will always remain.
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