Station Night Club Fire Memorial. 17 years ago today Rhode Island will never forget that day.

The Feb. 20, 2003 fire claimed the lives of 100 people and injured more than 200 others after pyrotechnics sparked the massive blaze during a Great White concert. A memorial now sits at the Cowesett Avenue location where the club once stood, a place where friends and families of the victims, along with survivors, go to remember those lost. This was supposed to be a monument to remind state officials, local officials, elected officials what happens when you don’t do your job. People die,” David Kane Father of the youngest victim Nickolas Oneil. Go by and check out the memorial. Rhode Island came together that day and cried together.