Report: 5 Years After Rhode Island Nightclub Fire, Survivors Struggle

February 16, 2008

Abby Goodnough of The New York Times reports: Savagely burned in the fire that incinerated the Station nightclub here five years ago next Wednesday, Linda Fisher has endured a dozen surgeries to salvage her arms, her hands, her face.

Ms. Fisher inhaled so much smoke that anguishing night that even now, she gets winded carrying a basket of laundry. Her thick scars keep her from sweating normally, and she has trouble distinguishing hot from cold.

Ms. Fisher feels lucky.

"There are survivors who have no ears, eyes, nose, hair," she said.

But, like so many others who escaped the inferno, she also simmers with darker emotions.

The survivors are still waiting for their lawsuit against the Station owners and dozens of other defendants, the largest civil tort case in Rhode Island history, to play out in federal court. Many remain furious that one of the club's owners was sentenced to community service and the other is expected to leave prison next year.

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