In a ceremony Monday morning, families and survivors of the Station Nightclub Fire gathered at the site in West Warwick — where a memorial is under construction — to mark the 14 years since the tragedy. While some 200 people survived injuries, 100 people were killed.
By the 15th anniversary next year, there will likely be a new permanent memorial park open to the public. Gina Russo, a survivor of the fire whose fiancé perished, says the memorial is slated to open this spring. Russo has led the fundraising campaign for the Station Fire Memorial Foundation.
Completion of the park is “bittersweet,” Russo said on Monday after a brief prayer and reflection outside the under-construction memorial park. “It doesn’t end it.