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[Music] it took nearly 24 hours to recover all the bodies from inside the ruins of
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rhode island station nightclub horrible things happen to people for absolutely no reason the death toll was
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far greater than anyone expected we went out on a thursday night to listen to music
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drink some beers and have a good time and a quarter of those people didn't get to go home ever
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[Music] this is what i live with i don't hide it second and third degree burns over 34 of
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my body from the heat i'm lucky i even have arms it was a neighborhood club for live
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music the people who went to that club were regulars the headliner was jack russell's great white
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you really had to work your way through the crowd it was packed i'm standing you know three rows back from the edge
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of the stage we're just waiting then it gets dark the music starts the pyrotechnics went off
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i remember being a little shocked it just felt really big and i just sort of noticed some flame on
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the walls on either side and then it just kept it kept growing when that fire alarm went off
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that's when i said to myself this and i remember the words this isn't this isn't good this is not going to be
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good this is bad it went from 0 to 10 in what seemed like a second and then the buildings you know
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completely engulfed [Music] with the incident [Music] [Applause] literally laid there
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said god just take care of my family because i knew i was going to die 100 lives were taken more than 200
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people were hurt it's hard to describe the level of agony the state of rhode island is small
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and it feels like somebody knew somebody who was in that fire or knew somebody who did and so the pain is very personal
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we realize there's very little we can say that will provide comfort to the thousands no one meant for this to
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happen brothers jeffrey and michael dadarian co-owners of the club are both charged
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with involuntary manslaughter taking responsibility for your actions goes a long way and you don't feel the
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brothers have ever accepted responsibility true people who were key to understanding this tragedy had
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remained silent why are you sitting here talking to me i think we're sitting here talking to you
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because we wanted the full story to come out and that for people who want to come to
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their own conclusion on what happened that night