GREAT WHITE Nightclub Fire: Station Foam Released For Tests

August 10, 2005

Tracy Breton of The Providence Journal has issued the following report:

Lawyers representing the victims of The Station nightclub fire will finally get some of the polyurethane foam that was seized from the charred ruins of the club so that tests can be done to help pinpoint who manufactured the highly flammable material.

Lawyer Mark Mandell, who represents dozens of the people who were killed or injured in the Feb. 20, 2003, nightclub fire, said yesterday that he and James Ruggieri, a lawyer representing some of the foam manufacturers already being sued, will go to the West Warwick Police Department at 2 p.m. today to pick up four pieces of the foam, each measuring 1 square foot. He said they will take the foam to a storage warehouse in Cranston where it will be kept until it is cut into smaller pieces for future testing by the victims' lawyers and foam manufacturers named as defendants in the civil cases.

Mandell said the victims' lawyers have chosen a testing lab near Chicago, McCrone Labs. He said he hopes the tests can be done in September. But first, he said, the victims' lawyers must get court permission to cut samples of the foam from the sheets they are being given.

The highly flammable foam that covered the walls and ceiling of The Station is a centerpiece of the civil and criminal cases stemming from the nightclub fire.

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