[Scan-DC] OT: Rhode Island Nightclub Fire. Next Stop Would Hve Been JAXX.

[John Bacon]

You kow what is sad I neve knew about this till this morning when I checked
my E-mail and say it. I am only 15 mins from there.

JOHN
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JAXX.


> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39039-2003Feb21.html
>
> >>
> Death Toll Mounts in R.I. Nightclub Fire
> More Than 200 Injured, Killed When Pyrotechnics Burn Out of Control
>
> By Mike Allen
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Friday, February 21, 2003; 12:02 PM
>
> About 65 people were killed and more than 160 others were injured in a
> nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., late last night when a heavy-metal
> band's fireworks burned out of control, destroying the wooden building
> and turning the concert audience into a frantic mob.
>
> ....
> A cameraman for WPRI-TV of Providence, R.I., was at The Station to
> prepare a report on nightclub safety, and was taping when the fire began.
>
> ....
> Great White, which sold 6 million albums after emerging from the Los
> Angeles metal scene of the 1980s, has had hits that include "Once Bitten,
> Twice Shy" and "Rock Me." The group was scheduled to perform at a club in
> Springfield, Va., tonight.
>
> ....
> Robin Petrarca, 44, was a concertgoer who survived the fire. "I never
> knew a place could burn so fast," Petrarca told AP. "There was nothing
> they could do, it went up so fast."
>
> � 2003 The Washington Post Company
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