Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire (64 page)

233
Notwithstanding Dr. Laposata’s apparent reluctance
Bryan Rourke, “A Vision of Philadelphia Takes Shape in an Empty Warehouse in Warwick,”
Providence Journal
, August 27, 2010.

233
West Warwick town building official Stephen Murray
Talia Buford, “West Warwick Building Official Fired,”
Providence Journal
, February 20, 2008.

233
West Warwick fire chief Charles D. Hall
Ibid.

233
Even more complex retirement plans were carried out
Benjamin N. Gedan, “West Warwick Fire Official Shifts Post,”
Providence Journal
, October 4, 2005.

233
Then, in mid-2006, Larocque
Talia Buford, “Fire Marshal Retires on Disability Five Years after Club Fire,”
Providence Journal
, February 14, 2008. It was also reported in 2012 that Larocque used his disabled-firefighter status to obtain taxpayer-paid tuition for his children within Rhode Island’s state university system. Katherine Gregg, “State Law Provides Tuition for 91 on Disability Pensions,”
Providence Journal
, May 9, 2012.

233
tax-free
See Internal Revenue Code, § 104(a)(1).

233–34
Barry Warner, the American Foam Corporation salesman
Witness statement of Barry Warner, November 3, 2005, p. 3, lines 1–10.

234
Warner’s grim front-yard tableau brings to mind
Mark Jones, “The First Two-Hundred Acres: Arlington National Cemetery,” National Park Service website, August 5, 2002 (citing James Edward Peters,
Arlington National Cemetery: Shrine to America’s Heroes
, 2nd ed. (Bethesda, MD: Woodbine House, 2000); letter, Colonel J. M. Moore to Major General D. H. Rucker, December 11, 1865; National Archives, RG 92: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Records relating to functions: cemeterial, 1829–1929 and general correspondence and reports relating to national and post cemeteries (“Cemetery file”), 1865–c.1914, Arlington, VA, Box 7, NM-81, Entry 576.

234
Barry Warner still owns the house
West Warwick Tax Assessor Database, last accessed September 12, 2011.

INDEX

Note:
Italic page numbers refer to The Station floor plan illustration.

211 Cowesett Avenue.
See
Cowesett Avenue (number 211)

9/11 terrorist attacks,
2
,
141–43
,
186

ABC Bus Inc.,
196
,
250

acoustical insulation.
See
sound insulation

acrolein,
101

advances (litigation financing),
226–27

allocation of settlement monies.
See
distribution of settlement monies

American Foam Corporation,
18–19
,
132–33
,
211

culpability,
192–93

settlements (legal),
202
,
250

American Red Cross,
135–36
,
144
,
146

Anderson, Kevin,
138–39

Anheuser-Busch,
49
,
194–95
,
202
,
250

Antonelli, Richard,
15–16

Appolonia, Gary,
119–20

Araujo, Brian,
119–20

Arnold, Tim,
8–9
,
19
,
210–11
,
216

Arpin, John,
xii
,
14–15
,
76
,
79
,
94
,
268
n Arruda, Chris,
120

Arruda, Elizabeth,
106–7

Arruda, Kristen,
56
,
62

artifacts.
See
personal effects

ASTM D-1692 flammability test,
131

ATF.
See
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)

attorneys,
180–83
,
187–89

audiotapes,
109–14

autopsies,
139–40

Ayer, Tina,
35
,
62
,
138

Bagtaz, Karla,
24
,
58
,
138

Baldino, Anthony,
16

band buses.
See
Great White (rock band): bus

band door.
See
exits

bands.
See
rock bands

Barr, Terry,
27–28

Bast, Randy,
52
,
196

Bauer, Wolfgang,
148
,
153–54
,
232–33

Bayer, Otto,
128–29

beer distribution and distributors,
48–50
,
194–95
.
See also
Anheuser-Busch; intoxicants, effects/role of; McLaughlin & Moran Inc.

Beese, Kevin,
xii
,
33–34
,
56
,
73
,
150–51
,
154–57

Beineke, Gary and Pam,
89–91

Belanger, Patricia,
138

Believer (rock band),
31
,
204–5
,
208
,
236

Bernard, Jackie,
4
,
35
,
62

Berthiaume, Todd,
123

Bettencourt, Anthony,
56
,
60–62
,
104
,
120
,
251

Biechele, Dan,
54
,
115
,
231

actions during the fire or aftermath,
78
,
96
,
121
,
158

culpability,
70
,
155
,
162–66
,
249
,
251

pyrotechnic operations,
12–13
,
26–29
,
48
,
50–52
,
57–58

pyrotechnics, permission for,
28–29
,
149–50
,
239

bouncers,
72–73
,
75–76
,
81
.
See also
Arpin, John; Giamei, Mario; King, Tracy; Vieira, Scott Briody, Thomas,
165

Brousseau, Peter,
17–18
,
126
,
152

Bryant, Todd,
19

BubbleWrap,
209
,
289
n

Budweiser companies,
194–95

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF),
112

burns and burn victims,
123–24
,
173–79
.
See also
Rhode Island Hospital; Shriners Hospital (Boston); skin injuries; University of Massachusetts Medical Center Butler, Brian,
53–59
,
86
,
109
,
114–15

actions during the fire or aftermath,
157–58
,
199–201

culpability,
191–92

settlements (legal),
251