Station Nightclub Tragedy on Talk Is Jericho - EP222

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Michael Ricardi & his best friend, Jim Gahan, were at the Station nightclub on February 20, 2003 to see Great White when tragedy struck. The venue went up in flames, and over 100 people lost their lives as the fast-moving fire fully-engulfed the building in the span of 5 minutes. Michael made it out. Jim did not. Hear Michael's harrowing tale of survival and sorrow, and how he eventually picked up the pieces and found a way to pay tribute to his fallen friend. It's an emotional and riveting tale of friendship, music, and overcoming tragedy.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The Cherico Network on Westwood One
0:03.5	Alright Michael Ricardi is a survivor of one of the deadliest nightclub fires in American history.
0:09.6	He was at the station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island on February 20th, 2003
0:15.0	just about 13 years ago.
0:17.6	The night the club went up in flames and a hundred people lost their lives in that fire.
0:23.1	One of the greatest tragedies in American history
0:26.1	and the craziest thing was it happened at a great white concert.
0:29.8	If you like rock and roll 80s, hair metal, great white was a huge band once bitten twice shy,
0:36.3	faced the day.
0:38.8	Mr. Bone, House of Broken Love, they had a lot of hits at that time frame.
0:42.3	So Mike and his best friend Jim Gahan went to see great white.
0:46.2	They had their own college radio show had scored an interview with singer Jack Russell
0:50.7	earlier in the evening.
0:52.0	Then we're given free tickets to the gig and ended up second row from the stage.
0:56.5	Fire started broke out and within 90 seconds the entire place burned to the ground.
1:00.8	A hundred people died in that blaze.
1:02.8	Michael Ricardi made it out of the station that night but his best friend did not.
1:07.3	So now 13 years later Mike he's written a book detailing that night's events being tribute to
1:12.4	his friend. The book is called Just a Thought Away and Michael is here on talk as Cherico
1:17.0	to share this harrowing emotional terrifying story about escaping the fire and reminisce about
1:24.5	the friend the best friend he still misses to this day. It's one of the most emotional episodes
1:30.1	in talk as Cherico history and it's an incredible story that Mike was gracious enough to share
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