Reddit reviews Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert

That was no rumor it was very much a fact of the case. A lot of people listened to this guy for some reason. One dude who was there with his family just pushed him out of the way and went out that door. IIRC he later suffered from survivors guilt over not getting more people out via that exit.

https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Show-Nightclub-Americas-Deadliest/dp/1611688531

This book is pretty good since it was written by the lawyer who represented the victims and laid out all of the established facts of the case. The last 50 or so pages gets a little "legalese" but its still a great read just compiling all of the things that went wrong and their origin stories.

For example the brothers who owned the club wanted to play nice with an abutting neighbor who was very much against the club and the nose it generated. He had called in numerous noise complaints over the year to the West Warwick PD. The previous owners had let the brothers know of the problem during the sale.

The solution the owners came up? Well this neighbor happened to be employed by a foam mfg. company so they bought a bunch of low grade foam soundproofing from his company (neighbor I believe got a commission from the sale). They might as well just have filled the walls with full gas tanks since it had the same effect when the pyro hit in the foam.

> Which books if you don't mind me asking

https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Show-Nightclub-Americas-Deadliest/dp/1611688531/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480806017&sr=8-1&keywords=station+fire

https://www.amazon.com/Ashes-Surviving-Station-Nightclub-Fire/dp/0741457911/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0741457911&pd_rd_r=8Z22ZKXNG6ZNGK8Q6B1V&pd_rd_w=qzjh1&pd_rd_wg=ZqUE7&psc=1&refRID=8Z22ZKXNG6ZNGK8Q6B1V

"Killer Show" by John Barylick - quite a well-researched book.


https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Show-Nightclub-Americas-Deadliest/dp/1611688531

This is a really excellent read:

http://www.amazon.com/Killer-Show-Nightclub-Americas-Deadliest/dp/1611688531

There was a news reporter on scene who got most of the footage (NSFL)
Also this is a great read,
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert