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05-11-2006, 03:43 PM
Manager Gets Four Years for Deadly R.I. Nightclub Blaze
A former rock-band manager whose pyrotechnics caused a nightclub fire that killed 100 people was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison - well short of the maximum - drawing sobs and groans from victims' relatives
Some were so angered by the sentence given to Daniel Biechele - who could have received 10 years - that they stormed out of the courtroom. One man yelled "Typical (expletive) Rhode Island."
"What do you think of your son now?" Patricia Belanger shouted to Biechele's mother. Belanger, who lost her 30-year-old daughter, Dina Ann DeMaio, told reporters afterward: "Now it's her turn to suffer, just like we've been suffering because of her son."
http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=46&id=49223
No malice here, just a ton of stupidity. I dont think he knew what could happen by using that sound absorbing material, but ignorance is seldom a good excuse. The Fire Inspector on the other hand, I'd hate to be him.
The church I went to a few years back did a Judgement House, its a series of scenes that show kids that die in an accident and what happens to those who know the Lord and those who don't.
I helped out with the EMS scene. When we arrived at where it was being held they had the walls covered with a type of visqueen to blacken the rooms for effect. When my freind saw saw it he told them the place was a death trap and one match would cause the place to go up in a few seconds. That type of Visqueen was petroleum based. When I got there I light of a 4x4 section outside to show them. The guy running it felt terrible. The same thing could have happened there easily.No malice just poor judgement.
A former rock-band manager whose pyrotechnics caused a nightclub fire that killed 100 people was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison - well short of the maximum - drawing sobs and groans from victims' relatives
Some were so angered by the sentence given to Daniel Biechele - who could have received 10 years - that they stormed out of the courtroom. One man yelled "Typical (expletive) Rhode Island."
"What do you think of your son now?" Patricia Belanger shouted to Biechele's mother. Belanger, who lost her 30-year-old daughter, Dina Ann DeMaio, told reporters afterward: "Now it's her turn to suffer, just like we've been suffering because of her son."
http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=46&id=49223
No malice here, just a ton of stupidity. I dont think he knew what could happen by using that sound absorbing material, but ignorance is seldom a good excuse. The Fire Inspector on the other hand, I'd hate to be him.
The church I went to a few years back did a Judgement House, its a series of scenes that show kids that die in an accident and what happens to those who know the Lord and those who don't.
I helped out with the EMS scene. When we arrived at where it was being held they had the walls covered with a type of visqueen to blacken the rooms for effect. When my freind saw saw it he told them the place was a death trap and one match would cause the place to go up in a few seconds. That type of Visqueen was petroleum based. When I got there I light of a 4x4 section outside to show them. The guy running it felt terrible. The same thing could have happened there easily.No malice just poor judgement.