After a long wait, the site of the Station nightclub fire is now a place for peaceful sounds
For years after her uncle was killed in the Station nightclub fire, leaving behind four children, Christina Pimentel could not bring herself to drive by the site in West Warwick, R.I. It was just too painful.
But slowly, she and other family members and survivors began to visit.
Every year on her uncle’s birthday, she would bring flowers. Her father put up a cross. One of her uncle’s children — who were all under 14 when he was killed — brought a toy motorcycle, a memento of one of Carlos Pimentel’s favorite pastimes.
Now, 14 years after 100 people were killed in one of the nation’s deadliest nightclub disasters, the flowers, crosses, and teddy bears that family members brought have been buried beneath a permanent memorial that will be dedicated at a ceremony on Sunday.
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