Station Nightclub Fire- Part 1- 2003 In 90 seconds the temperature rose to 1100 degrees

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Send us a text Hundreds were trapped inside the Station, a Rhode Island roadhouse bar, hosting a fading rock band. The night's draw "Great White" a hair band from the eighties, took the stage. The band set off pyrotechnics inside the wood framed bar. A local cameraman filmed the event. It took him 72 seconds to exit the bar, few made it out after him. The acoustic foam on the ceiling acted as a type of napalm. Toxic smoke and intense heat, ultimately killed 100 patrons and injured hundr...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns True Crime Podcast.
0:11.7	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
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0:26.1	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
0:39.5	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.1	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:49.8	Guys, welcome back to Boston Confidential. If you need to get a hold of me for anything, the best way is email,
0:56.3	and that is Barry at Boston Confidential.net. Feel free to reach out. But today, I guess we have to
1:03.8	jump back into the time machine a little bit. It's been 18 years since this incident occurred.
1:11.7	And one of the reasons I did it, I knew I was going to have to do it.
1:14.6	I was putting it off, to be honest with you.
1:17.1	It's a horrible, horrible story.
1:19.8	And I'd been getting some emails on it.
1:23.8	And people were kind of complaining that I haven't covered much to do with Rhode Island,
1:29.3	our southern neighbor.
1:31.3	And here it is.
1:32.9	This story is the station nightclub fire from February 2003.
1:39.3	This case is an absolute horror show, guys.
1:42.0	100 people lost their lives in that building.
1:45.8	230 were hurt during this stampede to exit the building.
1:52.7	And even before that, the smoke was so horrendous.
1:56.0	People were dropping within a minute, guys, one minute.
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