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Thomas E. Heslin, metropolitan managing editor and Paul Edward Parker, investigative reporter, for The Providence Journal, discuss how their newspaper devoted extraordinary resources to the coverage of the Station Nightclub Fire story in the pursuit of answers to such basic questions as who lived, who died, and why?

Fire broke out inside a crowded bar south of Providence on the night of Thursday, February 20, 2003. The six-minute conflagration, which eventually killed 100 people and injured more than 200, was among the deadliest nightclub fires in United States history.