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08/28/2003
Investigators with the
08/28/2003
"And if you look at the condition of that building 270 seconds after ignition, that is not a place you want to be in," said William Grosshandler, leader of the federal team investigating how the February fire in West Warwick claimed 100 lives.
08/26/2003
His brother electricians in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers last night ensured that the union would never forget Woodmansee's sacrifice last Feb. 20, and honored him with the national union's lifesaving award, the first ever for the 820-member IBEW Local 99, said Allen P. Durand, the local's business manager.
08/26/2003
A judge yesterday denied a request by the owners of The Station to wait until after their appeals are heard to enforce a $1.06-million penalty against the nightclub for lack of workers' compensation insurance.
08/25/2003
PROVIDENCE -- The Department of Labor can begin collecting a more than $1 million fine imposed on The Station nightclub owners for failing to carry workers' compensation insurance.
08/24/2003
Two days after Christmas in 1999, Fire Marshal Denis P. Larocque set out to determine how many people should be allowed inside The Station nightclub.
08/22/2003
Comedian Colin Quinn likes to go after hypocrisy -- and whether it's on the political left or the right doesn't much matter.
08/21/2003
Lisa Marie Scott, 33, was pronounced dead at the scene, said Fire Battallion Chief Henry Courtmanche.
08/21/2003
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration yesterday announced that it has fined the company that owns The Station nightclub $85,200 and the corporate entity for the band Great White $7,000 for alleged violations of federal workplace-safety laws.
08/21/2003
On yesterday's six-month anniversary of The Station fire, the band Great White pressed ahead with a series of benefit concerts while a grand jury pressed for details about the pyrotechnics that sparked the deadly Feb. 20 blaze.
08/21/2003
Jesika Toracinta and David Bogosian, musicians who have worked together for several years, performed "Going Home," a song Bogosian, of Cranston, wrote about the fire. Their audience of several hundred people included fire survivors and the families of those who died.
08/21/2003
Counseling, medical support
08/20/2003
PROVIDENCE -- Great White, the 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked the deadly West Warwick nightclub fire, had plans to play a show in Massachusetts, despite earlier claims its benefit tour would steer clear of New England.
08/20/2003
Today, several people toured the Cowesett Avenue site where the club once stood. In its place, crosses have been erected for each victim. Informal memorials of flowers and personal trinkets also dot the land, now shaded green with summer grass.
08/20/2003
PROVIDENCE -- Six months after The Station nightclub fire that killed 100 people, the federal agency that regulates workplace safety has fined the club's owners and the entity that owns the band Great White a total of nearly $100,000.
08/18/2003
The criminal investigation into the fire that killed 100 at The Station nightclub in West Warwick is about half completed, a spokesman for Atty. Gen. Patrick Lynch said yesterday.
08/16/2003
But according to lawyers who attended the private conference, Lagueux indicated that whatever he decides, he will probably ask the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review his decision -- which could lead to a year's delay in getting the issue resolved.
08/16/2003
A Service of Healing and Remembrance in memory of the victims and in honor of the survivors, police, fire, rescue and hospital personnel on the six-month anniversary of The Station Fire will be held Wednesday, Aug. 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the amphitheater on the grounds of the Kent County YMCA, Centerville Road, Warwick. Rain date will be Wednesday, Aug. 27, at 6:30 p.m.
08/14/2003
Attorney Patrick Jones has asked the broadcast giant to hand over documents regarding club owner Jeffrey Derderian's employment at WPRI-TV, a local CBS affiliate where Derderian worked as a reporter.
08/14/2003
Unless the court allows the penalty to be stayed pending the appeal, the company that owns The Station, Derco LLC, could be ordered to immediately pay the $1,066,000.
08/13/2003
But according to lawyers who attended the private conference, Lagueux indicated that whatever he decides, he plans to ask the First Circuit appellate court in Boston to review his decision -- which could lead to a year's delay in getting the issue resolved.
08/13/2003
Attorney Patrick Jones has asked the broadcast giant to hand over documents regarding club owner Jeffrey Derderian's employment at WPRI-TV, a local CBS affiliate where Derderian worked as a reporter.
08/13/2003
On July 24, Workers' Compensation Court Judge Bruce Q. Morin upheld that penalty against Derco LLC, the company that owned the West Warwick club, which was the scene of a Feb. 20 fire that killed 100 people and injured about 200.
08/13/2003
A respiratory therapist at Rhode Island Hospital, Raymond Laguerre was called into action when tragedy struck at The Station nightclub in February.
08/12/2003
The Station Memorial Foundation has just started meeting to plan the memorial on the site of the former club on Cowesett Avenue.
08/10/2003
"It was that rock," says Ida Francisco, Tom's grandmother, her hands on her ears.
08/08/2003
The Web site of the Joint Commission on Fire Safety provides information on the new law and an online form to apply for low-interest business loans to install fire-safety devices.
08/08/2003
Attorneys for beer distributor McLaughlin and Moran, Inc., Anheuser-Busch, Inc., and Clear Channel Broadcasting, Inc., filed papers yesterday in Superior Court to remove the expected lawsuits to federal court.
08/07/2003
A fire-science expert and a lawyer putting together lawsuits stemming from The Station fire yesterday examined evidence collected from the nightclub's ruins, trying to identify the companies that made the products involved in the blaze.
08/07/2003
Services
08/06/2003
Attorney Mark Mandell and an expert worked at the Cranston warehouse where 717 items collected by civil lawyers from the West Warwick site are being stored.
08/06/2003
Counseling, medical support
08/05/2003
Last month, a Workers' Compensation Court judge upheld the penalty -- the largest of its kind in state history -- the Department of Labor and Training levied against Derco LLC, the company owned by Jeffrey and Michael Derderian.
08/04/2003
08/02/2003
Counseling, medical support
08/01/2003
Counseling, medical support
08/01/2003
The modest federal grants are nowhwere near the almost $9 million in one-year costs projected by Governor Carcieri's administration. That estimate included law-enforcement and firefighting costs, as well as free care by the hospitals that attended to burn victims.
08/01/2003
They also want Derco LLC, the company owned by Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, to produce paperwork related to the purchase and installation of highly flammable foam that was used in the club as soundproofing.
08/01/2003
One month after The Station fire, West Warwick officials appealed to state leaders to help protect the town from bankruptcy, noting any finding of liability could mean "hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars" and would ultimately draw in the state anyway.
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