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Chargement... From The Ashes: Surviving the Station Nightclub Firepar Paul Lonardo
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Cette critique a été rédigée par l'auteur . On February 20, 2003, a crowd of nearly five hundred people were packed inside a small nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island to listen to the music of 80’s rock band, Great White. During their opening song, a pyrotechnic display ignited a stage wall. A rampaging fire spread quickly, engulfing the interior and trapping many people inside before they could escape. Within minutes, the incident became the fourth deadliest fire in U.S. history, killing 100 people and injuring 200 others. Gina Russo, 36, a mother of two young boys, was overcome by smoke inhalation and passed out before being pulled from the burning building by unknown rescuer. Her fianceé, Freddy Crisostomi, died at the scene. Gina sustained burns to over 40% of her body, lost her left ear and the burns to her head went clean to her skull. She spent eleven weeks in a coma and six more weeks in a rehabilitation hospital before she was allowed to go home. The grueling physical therapy continued for many years, and she underwent fifty surgeries and assorted skin graft procedures. The psychological scars she endured were every bit as permanent as the ones to her body. However, with the love and support of her family, Gina made tremendous progress, while maintaining her positive outlook and love for life. Today, Gina is happily married and a grandmother. In From The Ashes, she offers readers an emotional story of hope and triumph that will amaze and inspire. Gina gives her caregivers and her family all the credit for her survival, but her own strength and courage cannot be discounted, and these are the things that come shining through in this book, an inspiration for anyone who has gone through such a profound degree of loss and suffering. ( )
This book is an autobiographical account of one of the victims of Rhode Island's Station Nightclub fire. It is in equal parts fascinating, horrifying, heart-wrenching and inspiring. It is a tale of love lost, opportunities missed, true grit, triumph of the human spirit, and so much more. My heart goes out to Gina, who has gone through hell and back several times over just because she and her fiance wanted to have a fun night out and were placed at the not-so-tender mercies of others who cared not whether they lived or died. While I cheered on Gina in all her trials, this book will leave you wanting to punch the lights out of several people, particularly the club owners, who lined their walls with "solid gasoline", the band leader who approved the use of pyrotechnics in a small enclosed space, and the bouncer who, drunk with power, refused to let them leave through the stage door, saying it was for "band members only". By their callous actions and inactions, these people ensured that 100 people lost their lives that night.
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