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Feds to Issue Fire Probe Recommendations in Rhode Island Nightclub Fire

March 3, 2005

During an investigation into a deadly nightclub fire, federal experts reconstructed the club's stage area, studied evacuation routes and reviewed the response of emergency personnel.

A firefighter holds his hand to his forehead as he stands amidst the rubble at the scene of a deadly fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I. in this Feb. 21, 2003 file photo. After a two-year investigation into what caused a West Warwick nightclub to become a deadly firetrap, a panel of experts on Thursday planned to release recommendations to keep a similar tragedy from happening again.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- During an investigation into a deadly nightclub fire, federal experts reconstructed the club's stage area, studied evacuation routes and reviewed the response of emergency personnel.

Their findings, expected to be released Thursday, are expected to shed light on what conditions inside The Station nightclub led to 100 deaths. More than 200 people were injured in what turned out to be the nation's fourth-deadliest nightclub fire.