Re: Concert Disaster In Rhode Island

["Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>]

Donna and all  ask yourself this

How many times have you been in a club and when the lights go on at end 
of night you mutter "if there was a fire here we all be dead"




On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 1:25PM -0500, Donna Halper wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>> Just woke up now ( 3:00 this morning ) and there is a live breaking 
>> story of a massive club fire in West Warwick Rhode Island called " The 
>> Station " where 80's Heavy Metal band " Great White " was playing.  
>> WPRI is reporting that one of the pyrotechnic (sp) machines went off 
>> and the nightclub went on fire. WPRI is also reporting that people 
>> were trampled trying to exit the premesis and that Great White's 
>> guitarist Mark Kendall and WHJY's " The Doctor ", one of the most 
>> popular heavy metal DJ's have not been accounted for and the search is 
>> on as to see if they made it out alive, but TV reports are already 
>> alluding this to being on a level of the Boston's Cocoanut Grove Fire 
>> in 1942.
>
> And as might be expected, WBZ Radio had reporters on this story 
> immediately-- at the risk of seeming like I am shilling for them, they 
> do a wonderful job of being proactive and getting reporters to the 
> scene of breaking stories.  Now, on to other things.  Wouldn't it seem 
> that after the Cocoanut Grove (492 dead) club owners would have learnt 
> something?  Witnesses who escaped the Rhode Island tragedy said not 
> only were there no sprinklers, but no fire extinguishers either.  And 
> the club was very crowded.  Why does it take a tragedy to get people to 
> focus on safety?