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November 8, 2007

Station evidence: Cavalcade descended on scene

The Station fire broke out just after 11 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2003. Less than three hours later, as the chaos of fighting the fire and caring for the injured still swirled, the nightclub had become a formal crime scene, complete with a sign-in sheet to document who visited.

A West Warwick police detective named Ribbing signed in first, at 2:03 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 21. Over the next 48 hours, a parade of officials, investigators and workers checked in, according to evidence released today by the state Attorney General's Office.

They included representatives of: the state fire marshal; the North Kingstown Fire Department; Ocean State Transfer, a private livery service that moves bodies to the medical examiner's office for autopsy; the Rhode Island State Police; the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency; the Warwick Police Department; the governor’s office, including Governor Carcieri; the Providence Police Department; the Coventry Police Department; the National Fire Protection Association, a private agency the develops model fire codes used in many government jurisdictions; the attorney general; the Rhode Island Office of State Medical Examiners; Ventura Fence, which installed fencing around the site, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

-- Journal staff writer Paul Edward Parker

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