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BY DENISE LAVOIE
THE ASSOCIATED DRESS
PROVIDENCE, R.l. — Members
of the rock group Great White
have been subpoenaed by prose
cutors and said Tuesday they will
appear before a grand jury inves
tigating whether criminal charges
should be filed in the nightclub in
ferno that killed 97 people.
The grand jury is expected to
convene Wednesday, law enforce
ment officials said on condition of
anonymity.
Band publicist Byron Hontas
said the musicians are cooperat
ing with authorities and expect to
testify early next week.
Investigators are trying to de
termine who is to blame for the
fire that was apparently sparked
by the band’s pyrotechnics last
Thursday. Flames swept through
the West Warwick club, the
Station, in a matter of minutes.
The band has said it received
approval to use the special effects,
but the club’s owners have denied
giving permission.
It could not be immediately de
termined whether the club’s own
ers, brothers Jeffrey and Michael
Derderian, have received subpoe
nas. Their attorney, Kathleen
Hagerty, did not return calls
Tuesday, and the attorney gener
al’s office declined comment.
Police searched the
Narragansett home of Michael
Derderian on Sunday, according
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find those factors so that in future
studies we can modify them and
learn if that does in fact result in
increase in physical activity,”
Pate said.
He said if that works out, they
hope to make policy recommen
dations for schools and the agen
cies that operate them.
Bill Brown, associate professor
of educational psychology and a
part of the team working with
Pate, said the monitoring of the
children will take place on two dif
ferent levels: direct observation
by trained individuals and motion
sensors the children will wear
throughout the day.
Brown said the study would
give researchers a much better de
scription of what children’s activ
ity levels are in the schools, where
children find themselves for a long
part of the day.
lviosi mus ai me prescnooi age
are in some form of group care by
age 4,” he said. “And the circum
stances they find themselves in, as
far as their cognitive, physical and
social development, can be very,
very important.”
Brown said it doesn’t make
sense to wait until children are 14
and having weight problems if
there are things that can be done
at the policy level and at a teach
er implementation level.
“I think most people would
agree that we really do need to
take a preventive and early inter
vention approach to more active
and healthy lifestyles for kids,” he
said. “It’s a national problem, obe
sity — state and national prob
lem.”
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to a law enforcement source.
Attorney General Patrick
Lynch has said he does not believe
the Derderians have cooperated
with investigators, but spokesman
Mike Healey said Tuesday: “We’re
not pitting the band against the
Derderians.”
Meanwhile, Gov. Don Carcieri
tough process and the families and
the impacts of this thing are rip
pling throughout the state,”
Carcieri said.
The fire also injured nearly 190
people; about 60 remain hospital
ized, including 40 in critical con
dition.
Legal experts and fire investi
PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS
Kristen LaPlante, left, and Michael LaPlante leave the scene of
the Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, R.l.
said 93 of the 97 bodies have been
identified. The governor also said
there was a discrepancy between
the number of people reported
missing and those confirmed
dead, and search crews using dogs
were expected to go over the
charred ruins again to look for
bodies.
“This is a tough, very, very
gators said the Derderians or
members of the band Great White
— or both — could be indicted on
such charges as criminally negli
gent homicide, manslaughter,
even murder.
“It is pretty obvious that there
was some joint responsibility.
Maybe the issue is not which one
to charge, but what to charge both
with,” Donald Bliss, president of
the National Association of State
Fire Marshals and the New
Hampshire fire marshal, said.
Edward Ryan Jr., an attorney
who represented a homeless man
charged with manslaughter in a
1999 fire that killed six
Massachusetts firefighters, com
pared the Rhode Island case to
Boston’s Cocoanut Grove night
club fire that killed 492 people in
1942.
In that fire, the nightclub owner
was charged with negligent
manslaughter for having an over
crowded club with locked exit
doors, an act that showed he dis
regarded known risks to life, Ryan
said. He said the bar boy suspected
of starting the fire when he lit a
match was not charged because
the deaths were caused by an un
safe building.
Ryan said the grand jury could
find the club ownerg and the band
committed “affirmative acts” that
caused the deaths — the band by
using pyrotechnics without a per
mit, and the Derderians by failing
to make sure no fire hazards were
present. He cited reports that py
rotechnics had been used in the
club by other bands.
“If they had 70 shows in the last
three years and 35 of those in
volved pyrotechnics of some sort,
that leads to a fair inference that
they knew of or should have
known what was going on in then
club, ” Ryan said.
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