Fire Safety on 10-Year Anniversary of Fatal Rhode Island
Nightclub Fire  By: Deon Guillory Email By: Deon Guillory Email
HARRISONBURG -- On Jan. 27th, a fire at a nightclub in southern
Brazil killed more than 230 people. Investigators said it
started by a flare lit by band members.  About 10 years earlier,
an eerily similar nightclub fire broke out in Rhode Island.  On
Feb. 20, 2003, the Station Nightclub in West Warwick, R.I.
turned into an inferno as the result of a pyrotechnics
malfunction during a Great White concert. More than 100 people
died in that fire.  David Kane lost his son.  "When we had 100
people die and 200 people seriously maimed and injured, nobody
got the message," said Kane.  Gina Russo remembers that night.
She lost her fiance in the fire.  "If they hadn't set off the
pyrotechnics, then we wouldn't be having this conversation,"
said Russo.  In the 10 years since that fire, there have been
big changes made in the Valley. Fire inspectors go to the city's
night spots to make sure there is m