Deadly RI fire remembered; memorial plans advance
By MICHELLE R. SMITH?
?By MICHELLE R. SMITHA unidentified woman wipes her face as she reacts during ceremonies held to unveil plans for a permanent memorial on the site of The Station nightclub fire, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, in West Warwick, R.I. The 2003 blaze, which broke out when pyrotechnics for the rock band Great White ignited flammable packing foam that had been installed inside the club as soundproofing, took the lives of 100 people. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
A unidentified woman wipes her face as she reacts during ceremonies held to unveil plans for a permanent memorial on the site of The Station nightclub fire, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, in West Warwick, R.I. The 2003 blaze, which broke out when pyrotechnics for the rock band Great White ignited flammable packing foam that had been installed inside the club as soundproofing, took the lives of 100 people. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Tonda Daniels, of South Kingstown, R.I., front, places an ornament on a makeshift memorial to her fallen sister Lori Durante at the site of the Station nightclub fire, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, in West Warwick, R.I. The Station Fire Memorial Foundation unveiled final plans to build a permanent memorial at the site during ceremonies Sunday. The 2003 blaze took the lives of 100 people. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Jason Zubee, left, and his wife Robin Zubee, right, both of North Kingstown, R.I., stand together Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, in West Warwick, R.I., near makeshift memorials on the site of The Station nightclub fire. Zubee lost her cousin William Christopher Bonardi III in the 2003 blaze at the nightclub that killed 100 people. The Station Fire Memorial Foundation unveiled final plans to build a permanent memorial at the site during ceremonies Sunday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Diane Gomes, of Johnston, R.I., left, and Elaine Grant, of Lincoln, R.I., center, help display artist's renderings of a planned permanent memorial for victims of The Station nightclub fire during ceremonies at the site of the fire, in West Warwick, R.I., Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. The 2003 blaze, which broke out when pyrotechnics for the rock band Great White ignited flammable packing foam that had been installed inside the club as soundproofing, took the lives of 100 people. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Burn survivors of The Station nightclub fire Deb Wagner, of West Warwick, R.I., left, and Linda Fisher, of Chepachet, R.I., center, support one another as former R.I. Gov. Donald Carcieri, right, looks down during ceremonies on the site of the fire, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, in West Warwick. The Station Fire Memorial Foundation unveiled final plans to build a permanent memorial at the site during ceremonies Sunday. The 2003 blaze took the lives of 100 people. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
WEST WARWICK, R.I. (AP) ? Ten years after a deadly nightclub fire in Rhode Island, some survivors and relatives of the 100 who died in the blaze remember it with quiet pain.
Huddled together in bitter cold, they brought flowers Sunday and paid their respects at handmade crosses that dot the site of the 2003 fire for each person who died. Some cried and spoke of missing their loved ones and the difficulty of moving past such trauma.
Walter Castle Jr. said, "It's just very tough." Castle survived the fire but suffered third-degree burns in his lungs, throat and bronchial tubes.
The anniversary of the blaze is Wednesday. The fire broke out when pyrotechnics for the rock band Great White ignited flammable packing foam that had been installed in the club as soundproofing.
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