Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert

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On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse in West Warwick, Rhode Island, known as The Station. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock standard, the fate of among the unsuspecting nightclub patrons was once made up our minds with awful certainty. The blaze was once ignited when pyrotechnics set off by Great White, a 1980s heavy-metal band, lit flammable polyurethane “egg crate” foam sound insulation on the club’s walls. In not up to 10 minutes, 96 people were burned alive and 200 more were injured, many catastrophically. The final death toll topped out, three months later, at the eerily unlikely round number of 100.

The story of the fire, its causes, and its legal and human-tragedy aftermath is one of human lives put at risk by petty economic decisions–by a band, club owners, promoters, building inspectors, and product manufacturers. Any a type of decisions, made in a different way, might have averted the tragedy. Together, on the other hand, they reached a fatal critical mass.

Killer Show is the first comprehensive exploration of the chain of events leading up to the fire, the conflagration itself, and the painstaking search for evidence to hold the guilty to account, and obtain justice for the sufferers.

Anyone who has entered an entertainment venue and wondered, “Could I am getting out of here in a hurry?” will identify with concertgoers at The Station. Fans of disaster nonfiction and forensic thrillers will find ample elements of both genres in Killer Show.

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