Re: Concert Disaster In Rhode Island

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:53:04 -0500 Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>
writes:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:24:24 -0500 Donna Halper 
> <dlh@donnahalper.com> writes:
> >.  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?

I wrote:
> snip<
>The band said they had the 
> okay from the club but according to a statement released by the 
> Dedarians (sp) no one asked for permission and no one was granted 
> permission. 
>snip <


As a follow up, I was just watching ch 7 and they had a reporter in NJ
where the band played last week and the club owner of The Stone Pony said
the band used pyrtotechnics there as well without ever telling anyone at
the club and produced the contract that outlined what was to be included
in the performance.... just FYI
df