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foreign [Music] he took nearly 24 hours to recover all the bodies from inside the ruins of
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Rhode Island's 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
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percent of 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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[Music] you really had to work your way through the crowd it was packed I'm standing you
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know three rows back from the edge of the stage we're just waiting and then it gets dark
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the music starts the pyrotechnics went off I remember being a little shocked it just felt
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really big and I just sort of noticed some flame on the walls on either side and then it
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just kept it kept growing when that fire alarm went off that's when I said to myself this and I
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remember the words this isn't this isn't good this is not going to be good this is bad
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it went from 0 to 10 in what seemed like a second and then the building's you know completely engulfed
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with the infinite here [Music] [Applause] literally laid there said God just take care of my family
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because I knew I was going to die 100 lives were taken more than 200 people were hurt
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it's hard to describe the level of Agony the state of Rhode Island is small and it feels like somebody knew somebody who
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was in that fire or knew somebody who did and so the pain is very personal we realize there's very little we can
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say that will provide Comfort to the thousands no one meant for this to happen Brothers Jeffrey and Michael
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daddarians co-owners of the club are both charged with involuntary manslaughter what is your reaction to
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the indictment taking responsibility for your actions goes a long way and you don't feel the brothers have ever
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accepted responsibility true people who were key to understanding this tragedy had remained silent
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sitting here talking to me I think we're sitting here talking to you because we wanted the full story to come out and
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that for people who want to come to their own conclusion on what happened that night
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[Music] foreign [Music] [Music] hopped out of bed grabbed my clothes grabbed my keys hopped in the car and
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took off on February 20th 2003 at about 11 10 p.m Jody King got a call that something was going on at the station
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nightclub in West Warwick Rhode Island but he didn't know what I gotta find Trace he was worried about his brother
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Tracy who worked there as a bouncer as I went by the fire station fire trucks are
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coming out now the question in my head is why are all these fire trucks leaving Jody arrived he saw the devastating
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scene foreign and it was ugly the roof was caving in walls were caving in body after body in front of me
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I don't even like to talk about [Music] the deadliest fires in a club in U.S history is should not have happened it
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was completely preventable Scott James has written a book about the tragedy called trial by fire I decided I would
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just start asking some questions describe the Station nightclub for me what kind of Club was this it was a
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typical kind of roadside dive these are videos from prior performances taken inside the club it smelled like
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spilled beer and stale cigarettes and everything was just a little bit frayed at the edge but it's
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fun the night of the fire hundreds of people gathered at the station to see great white an 80s band now with some
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new members led by singer Jack Russell known mainly for their hit once bitten twice shot
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they had their moments and they played the Arenas that was in like the 80s but you know they have a following to this
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day were you a fan of the band great white yes definitely Linda Saran was a regular at the station that evening she
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had a girls night out with a friend while her young daughter was at a sleepover the night of the fire I got in
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for free I was asked to work the merch table for the band so I was getting 40 bucks and two T-shirts
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and I was paying staff pricing for beer because I knew a guy also there that night was Bates College student Phil
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Barr who was home for winter break you know just have a beer see a concert Phil who was in his junior year had dreams of
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a career on Wall Street and swam competitively for his college swim team I loved it it was really everything to
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me at that time unlike many of the patrons there this was Phil's first time at the club he arrived early around 8 30
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pm there really weren't that many people around early in the night so I actually got a really good sense of
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the layout of the venue when people arrive they walk through this entrance and this kind of longish
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hallway you'd see on your left a horseshoe shaped bar this was the main bar where you could get your drinks to
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the right was this much larger space in front of a stage you have four exits there's an exit near
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the stage we have an exit through the kitchen one near the bar and then the main exit that hallway where everybody
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came through the station was owned by Brothers Michael and Jeff daderian they're
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speaking out about the fire for the first time their story starts three years before
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the fire either of you know anything about running a nightclub zero no no couldn't play an instrument the
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dadarians bought the club as an investment Jeffrey was responsible for all of the marketing activities and I
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was responsible kind of for the day-to-day both the brothers had other jobs Michael owned a financial services
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business we're live in Wakefield tonight I'm Jeff dadarian Jeff was a local news
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reporter every time for years he'd worked in Boston for channel 7. we're live in Attleboro this morning I'm Jeff
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dadarian at the time of the fire he had just started a new job closer to home in
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Providence at the local CBS station at night he allowed a cameraman to shoot footage inside the club For an upcoming
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story about safety in public venues how ironic right right 48 hours is not showing any of that
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footage but that night leading the cameraman around was bouncer tracy King a dedicated husband and father of three
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young boys he was gregarious he was out there and he just loved being in the center Tracy liked to
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entertain people with his unique talent a surgery to correct a childhood ailment
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with his ears left him able to balance objects on his chin tracy King ladies and gentlemen I'm David Letterman twice
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to do stupid human tricks you're gonna balance it on your chin yes all right when he walked into a room if there
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wasn't a smile he'd start balancing stuff to get you uplifted and smiling that was his gift
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Jody says his brother enjoyed working for the darians they were friends he trusted the club he trusted the owners
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he trusted in his friends were you making money not really the dadarians say despite their love for the club the
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business had peaked and they were in the process of selling it the club was sold
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the club was sold it was already in contract purchase and sale had been signed but their plans for the future
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would suddenly change as great white started their first song their tour manager Daniel beakley set
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off four large fireworks called germs they are what they call 15 by 15. they go for 15 seconds and they go 15 feet
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into the air so it was not a great decision to use these inside a nightclub that only has 12 foot ceilings
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seconds later Flames appeared on the back wall most of the crowd thought it was part of the show and didn't move you
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know people didn't react instantly but Jeff who was helping out at the bar says he and an employee tried
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to get to the stage with a fire extinguisher we tried to get as far as we could we couldn't we couldn't make it
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about 40 seconds after the song began great white stopped the show and all but one member of the band escaped through
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the stage door exit that exit door would soon be engulfed in flames the fire alarm you hear it kick in and that's
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when the crowd realizes this is a real danger and we have got to get out of there
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hundreds of people ran to the only exit many of them knew the way they came in it's like a Riptide it's a surge of
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bodies the fire was now out of control it had spread along the phone that lined the
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walls and ceiling intended to dampen sound foam was raining down and the Flames are dripping from the
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ceiling looked like it was raining black fire they only have about 60 seconds to get
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out of that building if they're going to live [Music] this is what the station fire looked
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like about 15 minutes after it began those who were trapped inside when the flame started knew they needed to get
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out fast I remembered the smoke descended really quickly one of those people was Phil
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Barr we kind of crouched down behind some of the people in front of us you could not see your hand in front of
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your face that's how thick the smoke was once you could no longer see it was total pandemonium
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Phil was located between the stage and the front door a lot of people moved back towards the main entrance it became
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really clear that we were not going to be able to get out the front door [Music]
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since I had been there earlier in the night I knew that there was at least an exit in the back bar room
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that is the furthest exit away from the stage but it's a relatively straight line
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I went around the people trying to push to the front door into the main bar room
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I remember getting pushed from behind and I tripped over what I assumed was a bar stool
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and I just kind of went down on my face it became very very hard to breed lying on the floor not far from the
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Horseshoe Bar Phil lost consciousness the bar got quiet because people were dying literally and
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all you could hear was the Roar of the fire and liquor bottles exploding Linda Saran and her
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friend Deb were in The Atrium huddled together under a table I said you know what
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we're running out of time and I knew the window was to my left so I said to Deb stay here I'll be right back
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and I stood up I went over put my hands against the glass and I started kicking at that window
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and it wouldn't break I went and laid down next to Deb and just waited to die did you have enough time
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to form those complete thoughts yes I thought how terrible it was that my daughter was going to grow up without
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her mom and I heard and out Deb went it was like what and then outside I went cold air washing over me an off-duty
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police officer standing outside had heard her kicking at the window he got a tire iron from his car smashed
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the glass and started pulling people out when I first went out the window I landed on the stairs I couldn't get up
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and I said my hands won't work and that's when I noticed the black on my arms it looked like
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a ladder of those black jelly bracelets from the 80s hanging in rings around my wrists
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[Music] and I took a good look and I said oh I'm burned I couldn't hear alarms I couldn't hear
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noise I couldn't hear screaming anymore Phil Barr says when he came too he felt excruciating pain near
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the base of his spine and burning on his face I don't like to talk about it but I
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remember feeling weight on top of me and I'm pretty sure I crawled out from under
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another person to pull myself up I ran across the room and I ran face first into the wall
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and I felt the door and I just heaved my shoulder into it and I fell down the stairs out that door
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Phil was now outside but he felt like his lungs were on fire it was getting harder and harder to breathe I could
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feel tightness and constriction in my chest some bleeding I could notice in my throat
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[Music] also outside was club owner Jeff daderian he says he managed to escape through the front door before a stampede
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of people got stuck in the narrow hallway and blocked the exit I remember we were trying to get people
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away from the building like get away from the building happening so fast fast fast that's all I
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just can keep seeing in my head and the the roof and just everything just passed too fast
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Jeff called his brother Michael who was in Florida he's completely out of it out of it I couldn't understand him
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or understand the magnitude of what was going on there and I'm saying to him did
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everybody get out did anybody die you know and he's like he don't know he's like he don't know you don't know
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doesn't know anybody see Tracy I have to find him at the scene Jody King was desperate for
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information about his brother began to fear the worst I spent the next five or six hours
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going back and forth in the parking lot talking to firemen asking firemen can you please pull the sheets back for me I
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don't care what I'm going to see the Saran and Phil Barr badly injured were transported to a local hospital
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we have 39 confirmed fatalities but we're still in the process of searching the rubble it is now well over 50. we're
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now at 65 and it may be higher come in they want to talk to you and I'm like okay the night of the fire Jeff
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gave a statement to the local police and another one to an investigator with the
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attorney general's office remember I'm still in Florida Michael also spoke via phone to an investigator do you feel
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oh my goodness we're in trouble no no no why because in my mind I had nothing to
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hide if I had nothing to hide then why why wouldn't you why wouldn't you talk to them and tell them what you knew or
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what you didn't know [Music] foreign Jody King finally got the news that his brother Tracy's body had been found
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in the months and years that followed Jody also learned about Tracy's heroic last moments
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he ran in and came out nine times in 90 seconds [Music] how do you know that he went in 9
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to 9 different families have come up to me and said thank you for having a great brother he threw my
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wife my cousin my uncle my sister out a window what a great brother you have you should be proud
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I am proud [Music] he's after the fire victims families and survivors face the harsh new reality
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Phil Barrow woke after three weeks in a medically induced coma and was told his lungs had been badly damaged when you
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come to you're in a hospital room yep my dad was in the room I can't speak everything was sore and
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hoarse I picked up the pen and a very weak you know kind of handwriting I wrote I hope to make progress every day
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where'd that come from don't know [Music] true to his words Phil fought to breathe
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on his own and men ever so slowly he learned to walk again but even more than walking Phil wanted
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to return to swimming I asked my pulmonologist you know when can I get back in the pool he was very kind about
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it but he said I don't ever see you competitively swimming again I refused to accept that as
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the outcome about a month after the fire Phil went home from the hospital and the following year he was able to
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accomplish The Impossible and rejoin his swim team he had an unlikely friend rooting for
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him I want to ask you about Phil Barr how'd you meet him my Hospital roommate he and I took turns
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driving the respiratory therapists crazy in some ways it's almost like being in war together like you feel that kinship
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that you know God I really hope this guy makes it and yet the point in time I don't even think I
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knew his name like Phil Linda had also spent three weeks in a medically induced coma second
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and third degree burns over 34 percent of my body from the Heat I literally baked alive
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then as it heals the scarring tightens up so before I knew it this finger was contractured down in this position and
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the rest of them were all bent backwards because the skin had tightened up so the
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only way to pick up a can of soda would be to do this guy had no control over my muscles and that's when it starts to
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hit you all that you've lost and that's when the despair sinks in that's when you make a decision am I
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gonna sit here and cry about this my friends were dead and my other friends are severely injured I no longer
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look like myself but I made a choice I'm gonna do this Linda was one of the more than 200 who
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were seriously hurt in the fire a staggering hundred lives were lost almost immediately the finger pointing
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started rock and roll supposed to be fun not deadly you know the morning after the
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fire the lead singer of great white Jack Russell claimed the brothers had given the band permission to set off the
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fireworks we never do anything without asking the permission first no permission was ever requested by the
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band or any of its agents to use pyrotechnics at the station and no permission was ever given the following
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day the brothers responded at a press conference many people didn't make it out and that is a horror that will haunt my
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family and I for the rest of our lives we have an investigation ongoing and we need help we need answers and I'm trying
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to get them Rhode Island attorney general Patrick Lynch opened an investigation and convened a grand jury
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to determine if anyone should face criminal charges certainly there are people that we're looking at ultimately
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we may Target now in private practice Lynch says he looked into a host of people I don't think anybody in anything
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that they did wanted anybody to die that night or get injured but does that mean it's not a crime the
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answer is no one of the angles Lynch investigated was the dadarian brothers they were
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running the operation They promoted the event so it was very quickly they were in the circle of people we should look
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at over the course of the investigation what did you learn about the way the brothers ran their business looking back
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on it I would say they ran it as a side business an attempt to maybe make some extra money with a callous utter
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disregard for those that work there and assembled there the biggest question was why had the
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fire spread so quickly to satisfy noise complaints from Neighbors The Brothers had installed
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foam along the club's walls and ceilings as it turns out the phone they used was
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highly flammable the type of foam was equal to gallons of gasoline it was Liquid Fire who's responsible for
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that foam going up on the wall Jeffrey and Michael daderian Lynch also points out that the exits were a safety issue
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inspection records showed that just three months before the fire the dadarians had been cited by the local
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fire marshal for having a secondary interior door by the stage that opened inward which violated regulations they
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were told to take it down but the night of the fire it was up to help cut down the noise Not only was the door up which
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it shouldn't have been opened inward which it shouldn't have shouldn't have it was covered in foam it was also on
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fire and that door being up there is no question that that increased the likelihood that many many more would
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perish in December 2003 nine months after the fire Jeff and Michael daddarian were in
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court each charged with 200 counts of involuntary manslaughter plead not guilty around a hundred for
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criminal negligence and a hundred for misdemeanor manslaughter not guilty your honor great white's tour manager Daniel
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beakley also faced the same charges he had failed to get a license for the pyrotechnics from the state of Rhode
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Island permits from the local fire department they blamed three they should have
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blamed more there are other people who should be responsible in February of 2006 three years after
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this Station nightclub burned down many in Rhode Island were shocked to learn that instead of a trial a plea deal had
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been reached with Daniel beakley the tour manager for the band great white I don't know that I'll ever forgive myself
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for what happened that night so I can't expect anybody else do beakley pled guilty to a hundred counts
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of misdemeanor manslaughter and was sentenced to four years in prison he was granted parole and then released
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after 22 months there is so much pain and heartache that happened on our doorstep Michael and Jeff daddarian pled
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no contest to a hundred counts of misdemeanor manslaughter and agreed to a deal there's so many things that factor
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into the decision to do that it would have been horrific to have people go through this and then we've got the
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pressure from the judge saying that you know you're going to go to jail for 30 years apiece the brothers plea deal
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stated only one of them would go to prison the brothers decided that because Jeff had young kids Michael would go
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he spent 33 months in prison while Jeff had to do 500 hours of community service
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we never knew the whole story because the trial never happened so everything really never came out
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there are so many people still to this day angry that the case didn't go to trial do you understand that we do
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understand that and that's that's that's why we're here with you and 18 years after the fire the brothers say they
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want to set the record straight and reveal new information if you have a message that you want the
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people of Rhode Island to hear there were plenty of ways to get it out long before now I don't know about that I
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don't know first of all I don't know how you would how would you accomplish the detail and the amount of new information
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in a news conference or you know a commercial or something that we would try and do on our own
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for the dadarians the full story begins with the issue of permission the brothers have always maintained that
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they never gave the band permission to use pyrotechnics was there a contract yes did the contract specify the use of
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pirate Technics did not these contracts are pretty specific so I would think that the pyrotechnic
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provision would be in there just like we need to have you know 12 M M's I mean you know and they need to be Brown
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according to author Scott James Great White had reportedly used a large pyro display without permission at other
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clubs including just days before the fire at a show in New Jersey and the nightclub operator there was so angry
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when he saw what had happened in Rhode Island he went public and he even made public the contract that he had with
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great white that showed there was no evidence of fireworks that were going to be part of the show
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then there's that interior inward swinging door by the stage the former Attorney General Patrick
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Lynch says was responsible for loss of life the night of the fire I don't think there's any question that had that door
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not been up a significant number of people would have survived that door was meant to block the noise
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from the neighbors and so when the fire inspector came in and said that that door had to come down the door the door
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did come down but then the door would go back up when it was going to be a loud night it didn't have a lock on it there
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was nothing that would make it so you couldn't get out of it and according to the brothers it was one of the first
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exits used when the fire started that door was opened immediately and that's where the van went out but that door
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became impassable almost within seconds because clearly there's foam that's burning at 1800 or 1500 degrees and then
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it just got engulfed in front you weren't approaching that area at all and then there's the foam the fire
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spread so quickly because rather than fire retardant sound foam on the wall of the club
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was highly flammable Packing phone that is correct undisputable the brothers sent a fax to the phone company
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specifically asking for sound phone but what they received was highly flammable Packing phone the brothers say
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wait a minute we ordered sound phone how is it our responsibility if they gave us the wrong phone first of all I
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think it's pathetic disgusting and unsettling to think that they're even speaking now the foam that they put up
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had a direct impact on the survivability of the bulk of the people that were assembled that night vegetarians say
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that in the three years they owned the club no one ever questioned the safety of the phone
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and they're quick to point out the club was inspected by their insurance company
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and multiple times by the local fire marshal Dennis Lorac find the deficiencies you have to correct the deficiencies and
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then signs off so that you can get your liquor license that happened in 2000 that happened in
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2001 that happened in 2002. the brothers have since learned that the fire marshal
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should have tested the foam on the wall the field test is Crystal Clear you take
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one square inch of the phone you hold it up with a roach clip and light it on fire with a wooden match that's what the
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code says that specific did he do that zero right none of the inspections and then follow-up inspections if he had
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done that then he would have obviously have said to us take this stuff down this is
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flammable you can't have this when The Rock testified before the grand jury he claimed he never saw the foam the
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brothers however find that hard to believe considering the foam covered the wall ceiling and even the inward
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swinging door he cited as a violation did he do his job perfectly absolutely not according to Lynch under Rhode
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Island law the fire marshal could not be criminally charged unless there was evidence of bad faith or malice while
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troubling while concerning maddening it doesn't mean that somebody should be charged or can be if the brothers are
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relying on the fire marshal to tell them whether or not they can continue to do business and he says you can isn't that
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an important fact in determining who's at fault again any reference in this conversation
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about what the brothers say I I I take a step back and think I don't really trust it
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but many including the brothers feel strongly The Rock should also have been charged why is it okay that the fire
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marshal is allowed to miss something or make a mistake and what he did was just in oops but what we did was Criminal
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and why wasn't the foam company charged the brothers say there was evidence that
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the grand jury never heard [Music] two years after the fire at the station nightclub the dadarians learned about a
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piece of evidence they say it's important that was never presented to the grand jury
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this eight page facts sent to the Attorney General's office anonymously just months after the fire entitled the
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fire the phone they got this fax and it went on to describe the business practices of the foam company
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investigators eventually discovered the facts was sent by Barry Warner a former employee at American foam a company that
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had sent the dadarians the packing foam made of flammable polyurethane Warner lived next to the station and had met
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the brothers he writes up this long almost a Manifesto about all the things that he thinks are wrong in that phone
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company that led to this tragedy he wrote this is a company that is well aware of the dangers of polyurethane
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foam this is a company that did little to educate their employees about the limits of polyurethane foam fact they
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did the opposite when the phone came was there anything on the packaging that indicated that it was highly flammable
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zero no nothing but when Warner was called before the grand jury he was not asked about the allegations he made in
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the facts they didn't even bring up the facts to him they didn't even let him talk about it Mr Warner's facts wasn't
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presented to the grand jury correct I I can't remember honestly why wouldn't it be
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you're telling me it wasn't and I don't know that it wasn't 48 Hours has confirmed the facts was not presented to
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the grand jury regardless Lynch points out that daddarians still chose to take a plea deal instead of going to trial
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the defendant has every right to go to trial and say hey if it's this mysterious facts that it's
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trying to be referenced today 18 years later hey this is important American phone said Warner's claims
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about the company are false and while they weren't charged in the criminal case survivors and victims families sued
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them in civil court for not warning the dadarians the foam they sent them was flammable
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the company paid a hefty settlement and they weren't the only ones at least 64 others were also sued including the
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state of Rhode Island cited for the fire inspector's failure to report the flammable foam during multiple
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inspections in the end the survivors and victims families settled for a total of
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176 million dollars great white was part of the lawsuit and settled for one million dollars Jack
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Russell declined our request for an interview 18 years later there is no consensus
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among survivors when it comes to blame Linda still places much of it on the daderian brothers
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they have said they were sorry but never once do they say we screwed up if they stood up and said
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small business owners we were inexperienced we took shortcuts we screwed up I would forgive them in a heartbeat to
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people who feel that the two of you have never said we own this what do you say we say that
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we're sorry for all of it and if we could change it we would you know a day doesn't go by that we don't think about
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it in some way shape or form so to the people who think we don't own it I'm telling you we do own it okay we own it
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every day we own it every day does that mean you feel a sense of responsibility we feel a sense of guilt about what
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happened in the sense that you're you carry the guilt of knowing that these people aren't here
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anymore and these people are hurt for the rest of their life there isn't a guilt in terms of like that we knowingly
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did this or or or or you know caused it but there's a guilt of that that we it happened on our watch happened on our
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watch as a human being how do you not feel some sort of responsibility for that pretty girls
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I could have missed it all I could have missed my daughter's High School graduation
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the birth of her children I could have missed that my friends that didn't survive that
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night have missed that Linda will forever wear the scars of that horrible night but she refuses to
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live in the past I think a lot of people miss out on the moments not you no not anymore
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being a survivor of the Station nightclub fire is a piece of who I am it fuels you ready set here we go today
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Phil is married and the father of two little girls getting another opportunity to live my
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life came with enormous responsibility that's not just about hitting the next goal but doing something really
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meaningful [Music] because so many people that were there don't have that opportunity
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[Music] 2017 a memorial was open to honor the 100 innocent lives that were tragically
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lost in the station fire including tracy King who died saving so many others I'm so proud to say he's my brother
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hey Trace that's my buddy my parents taught us a lot a lot of things one of them is Never Say Die never give
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up miss you Grace Tracy died never giving up [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] a mother and her daughter held hostage
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threatened with death by Dynamite if she didn't rob a bank but when the suspects
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went on trial they falsely accused her of being The Mastermind did you feel like you were on trial I 100 felt like I
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