Rerun: The Inferno (The Station nightclub fire)

Swindled

A Concerned Citizen

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Originally published September 27, 2021. Incompetence and negligence lead to a devastating loss of life at a concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Prelude: A fight in the E2 nightclub in Chicago triggers a deadly stampede. –––-–---------------------------------------- BECOME A VALUEDLISTENER™ ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ –––-–---------------------------------------- DONATE: ⁠⁠SwindledPodcast.com/Support⁠⁠ CONSUME: ⁠⁠SwindledPodcast.com/Shop⁠⁠ WATCH: ⁠⁠SwindledVideo.com⁠⁠ –––-–---------------------------------------- MUSIC: ⁠⁠Deformr⁠⁠ –––-–---------------------------------------- FOLLOW: ⁠⁠SwindledPodcast.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠ Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Swindled may contain graphic descriptions or audio recordings of disturbing events which may not be suitable for all audiences.
0:09.9	Listener discretion is advised.
0:14.5	Apparently somebody with serious asthma that's brain with a mace and they are unconscious on the stairs.
0:21.4	Monday, February 17th, 2008, and they are unconsored. Monday, February 17, 2003, just after 2 a.m.
0:27.0	It was ladies' night at the E2 nightclub above the Epidemi restaurant on South Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
0:33.7	A fight breaks out between two women near the DJ booth on the crowded dance floor.
0:38.3	Purses are flying through the air.
0:40.3	Punches are thrown.
0:42.3	Others join in to create what one witness called an endless circle of people fighting.
0:48.3	To stop the violence, one of E2's bouncers sprayed the crowd with pepper spray.
0:52.3	The chemical fumes spread throughout the club, burning the lungs and eyes of unsuspecting patrons.
0:59.3	Confusion abounded.
1:01.4	What's in the air?
1:02.9	Why are people choking?
1:04.9	I'll bet it's bin Laden.
1:06.6	Someone yelled.
1:08.1	Well, some people was like, it's been Latin in here.
1:10.3	I'm like, they were saying silly stuff.
1:13.6	Invoking that name anywhere during the height of anthrax scares and color-coded terror alerts
1:18.6	was akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater.
1:22.6	Everyone in the club screamed and ran for the exit.
1:25.6	There was one way out, through the inward opening
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