Friday, February 28, 2003

Station Fire Web Log




This is probably the best blog about the fire that I've seen. Of course, it's paid for by the newspaper, so it should be.
The biggest news here is that FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has declined to issue an emergency declaration (which means federal emergency money. On one level I understand this (It's a tragedy, naturally, but is it an emergency? That's a harder call.) On another level-- this doesn't just affect the 200 people who were harmed by the club. We've got a lot of interconnections and tightknit communities and families in Rhode Island-- nearly everyone knows someone who was either at the fire, or someone who knows someone.

See the Providence Journal's Fire WebLog

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