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in nightclub fire visit scene
By Matt Apuzzo
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST WARWICK, R.I. —
For days, they’ve lived with the
video images of their relatives
jammed in the doorway of a
burning nightclub, many
screaming in terror as they
struggled in vain to break free.
On Sunday, for the first time,
the parents, siblings and chil
dren of the dozens of victims
who couldn’t escape were
allowed to walk up to the
charred rubble of The Station
nightclub to pray and say goodbye.
Their visit came as the death
toll from the tragedy was raised
to 97, after the governor
announced that yet another body
had been pulled from amid
the debris.
They stepped off buses into
the rain outside the club, where
firefighters had left dozens of
roses for them to hold or place at
a makeshift memorial, already
piled high with cards and flowers.
At least one person was over
come and taken to an ambulance.
“These families are going
through such a tragedy, such an
emotional odyssey right now,
and their hearts are broken, and
they still don’t know in many
cases whether their loved one
has been positively ID’d,” said
Gov. Don Carcieri, who met
with the families several times
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in the days after a rock band’s
pyrotechnics turned The Station
into a raging inferno.
On Sunday, he ordered a no-
fly zone within 5 miles of the
site to give the families privacy
to mourn.
“The agony they’ve been
going through for the last 48
hours almost has turned into
what you’d expect, the kinds of
questions: 'Why did this hap
pen? Did it have to happen?
What caused it to happen? Did
some individuals cause it to hap
pen?”’ Carcieri said. “We’re
asking all the same questions.”
The band was just getting
into its first song Thursday night
when sparks from the pyrotech
nics ignited foam tiles in the
ceiling and quickly spread
flames over the crowd of more
than 300. Fire officials said the
entire building was engulfed in
three minutes.
Little remains of the one-
story, wooden nightclub today
but ashes.
Against one partial wall lean
bouquets of flowers, stuffed ani
mals and American flags that
police had gathered from
mourners, who had been kept
behind a chain-link fence sever
al yards from the site. Amid the
growing makeshift memorial are
high school pictures, poems,
even an unopened can of Budweiser.
James Morris, 36, of
Warwick, stood outside the
fence where a steady stream of
mourners stopped Sunday to
pay their respects. He said he
was supposed to attend the con
cert Thursday, but didn’t feel
like going out that night. Six of
his friends went without him
and haven’t been heard
from since.
“It’s unbelievable,” he said,
hugging his two sons. “It’s just
awful. They were all young guys
in their 20s, early 30s.”
A memorial service was
planned Sunday night, described
as “prayer unplugged,” and
mourners were encouraged to
bring acoustic guitars to honor
the victims.
Forty-two of the 97 people
killed in the blaze had been
identified by Sunday afternoon,
Carcieri said. He said 80 sur
vivors remained hospitalized,
about two dozen of them in crit
ical condition.
Three days after the fire,
questions remained about
whether the heavy metal group
Great White had permission to
set off the fireworks — and
whether anyone should face
charges in the deadly blaze.
The club did not have a per
mit for the special effects. While
the leader and an attorney for
the band — which returned to
Los Angeles without guitarist
Ty Longley, missing since the
blaze —: have said the group got
permission from the club before
setting off the special effects,
the club’s owners insist they
never approved pyrotechnics use.
“It was a total shock to me to
see the pyrotechnics going off
when Great White took the
stage,” said Jeffrey Derderian, a
Providence television reporter
who had owned the club with
his brother since 2000.
Derderian spoke publicly
Saturday, breaking down in tears
and struggling to regain his
composure as he talked about
the victims.
“This tragedy has claimed
the lives of our friends,” he said,
“people who are husbands,
wives, mothers, fathers, sons
and daughters. We will some
how live with this grief, like so
many other people, for the rest
of our lives.”
Derderian was at the club the
night of the fire and said he tried
to help as many people as he
could get out alive.
“It is very difficult to express
what I experienced in the club
that night,” he said. “Please
know I tried as hard as I could,”
he said, choking up and bowing
his head. “Many people didn’t
make it out and that is a horror
our family will live with.”
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WASHINGTON — When a heart and matching lungs were
donated in Boston two weeks ago, a computer generated a list of
patients medically compatible and awaiting transplants.
But the recipient of those organs — 17-year-old Jesica Santillan
— failed to make the list because, as tragically evident later, her
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They came from someone with blood type A. Jesica had type O.
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Officials at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina
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coordinators?
Experts in the organ matching system say a mistake like this
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want these organs to go to waste. Do you have anybody?’” said
Howard Nathan, executive director of the Gift of Life Donor
Program in Philadelphia. “The most important thing is to give the
organ to a needy patient.”
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Worries some.
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able,” said Dr. John Holman, a kidney transplant surgeon at the
University of Utah. He is chairman of the organ procurement com-
tnittee for the United Network of Organ Sharing.
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