This looks all to familiar.

The lawsuits are meaningless except for those receiving the wrath of those still alive but injured and traumatized and the families and friends of those that died. We all should be learning from each other. These tragedies are not exclusive to the USA.


In this Feb. 20, 2003 photo released by the Rhode Island Attorney Generals office, nightclub worker Scott Vieira, right front, and Daniel Biechele, right, tour manager for the band Great White, appear near the stage in the Station nightclub, in West Warwick, R.I., as foam behind the stage bursts into flames.

Great White offers $1M to settle club fire suits (click title to entry - thank you)
100 people died in Rhode Island blaze sparked by band’s pyrotechnics
updated 4:44 p.m. ET, Tues., Sept . 2, 2008
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Members of the 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay $1 million to survivors and victims’ relatives, according to court papers filed Tuesday.
The settlement offer from Great White is the latest stemming from the February 2003 fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick. Roughly $175 million has now been offered by dozens of defendants to settle lawsuits over the blaze, which also injured more than 200 people and was the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history....