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Report: Two Years After GREAT WHITE Fire, Federal Agency Issues Safety Recommendations

March 3, 2005

Chris Harris of MTV News is reporting that two years and change after a fatal inferno at the Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, took the lives of 100 GREAT WHITE fans as well as the band's guitarist Ty Longley, the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a dozen building and fire-safety code recommendations as a result of the agency's investigation into the blaze.

The NIST, which has also been examining the 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center towers, called on organizations nationwide that develop fire-safety regulations and building codes to embrace these recommendations, released on Thursday (March 3). Among the recommendations are placing tighter restrictions on the use of flammable materials in nightclubs (such as wall coverings),improving access to building exits, augmenting the number of on-site fire extinguishers required in nightclubs, and mandating that both new and pre-existing venues install up-to-date sprinkler systems to better suppress fires.

The fire at the Station club was ignited when sparks from a pyrotechnic mishap during GREAT WHITE's opening song lit flammable soundproofing foam that lined the club's walls.

The NIST doesn't actually have regulatory authority — its findings are merely intended to help improve building safety codes. None of the results issued Thursday morning can be used as evidence in any pending criminal or civil court proceedings.

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