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New England Journal of Medicine

There were 2 articles in the NEJM about the Station nightclub fire, one a first-person account by a doctor, the second a long clinical case describing the treatment in detail, with a personal response by the patient herself.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp038179
Perspective
Tragedy and Response — The Rhode Island Nightclub Fire
Michael J. Dacey, M.D.
November 20, 2003
N Engl J Med 2003; 349:1990-1992
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp038179

Just before midnight on February 20, 2003, a terrible fire broke out in a crowded Rhode Island nightclub. It killed almost 100 people immediately and left more than 200 injured, many of them critically. My 350-bed community hospital is two miles from the nightclub...

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmcpc049001
CASE RECORDS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
Case 6-2004 — A 35-Year-Old Woman with Extensive, Deep Burns from a Nightclub Fire
Robert L. Sheridan, M.D., John T. Schulz, M.D., Ph.D., Colleen M. Ryan, M.D., and Paul J. McGinnis, M.D.
February 19, 2004
N Engl J Med 2004; 350:810-821
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc049001

A 35-year-old woman sustained extensive burns and was possibly trampled in a nightclub after a pyrotechnics display set fire to the building. At the scene, she was responsive but confused and agitated....

Dr. Robert L. Sheridan: Progress in burn care has been heavily influenced by disasters. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 highlighted the dangers of crowded buildings with inadequate exits. The Rialto Concert Hall fire of 1930 led to a better understanding of burn resuscitation.1 The Hartford Circus fire of 1944 emphasized the need for regional planning to distribute multiple burn casualties.2 The Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire of 1942 resulted in legislation to improve public safety, with such measures as outward-opening exit doors for public places....

The Patient: There is so much I remember about that awful night and so many things I will never know. I do not know who pulled me out of the burning building and do not remember being brought to the hospital. I awoke weeks later, and nothing seemed real....

Being a burn victim has taken away many of the things I enjoyed in life. I still struggle with many things, such as the fact that I will never have my own hair again and that I have lost my ear. I want to be me again, so with the help of my doctors, nurses, and therapists I am on the road to recovery....

--Nbauman (talk) 20:36, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Confusing wording

Under 'Ignition', the article says: "The acoustic foam was installed in two layers, with highly flammable urethane foam on top of polyethylene foam, the latter being difficult to ignite but releasing much more heat once ignited by the less dense urethane."

In the next sentence, it says: "Burning polyurethane foam instantly develops opaque, dark smoke along with deadly carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide gas."

Urethane and polyurethane are not the same thing; does anyone know which was actually installed? If so, the article should be edited appropriately. --Dstar3k (talk) 00:25, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Urethane and polyurethane are not the same thing, but the term "urethane foam" refers to a polyurethane product. See eg. --Equivamp - talk 01:42, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger discussion

Station Fire Memorial Park should be merged to this article. That article is relatively short, its content mostly duplicate stuff already here and the park does not meet the requirements to merit a separate one like being on National List of Historic Places and was built with the sole intention of honoring those killed in the nightclub fire. 2603:7000:2600:51DB:8CE2:3A1:734B:1D3C (talk) 17:20, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support for the reasons given by the nominator. Deor (talk) 17:07, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Things that may be covered but aren't

The audio tape recording from inside the fire (not the video tape)
The survivor found under the pile of bodies almost unscathed
Those who rescued people (the third bouncer, who died, and the off-duty cop, who broke the window)

These things are detailed in Killer Show and Trial by Fire. 94.246.147.217 (talk) 14:37, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]