I lived in Rhode Island when The Station fire happened, and I was working in a restaurant.

I guess one upside is that the fire Marshalls actually took their jobs seriously and the business owners actually listened to them. My boss had to get rid of a conveyor from the basement to the “back” exit, install new fire suppression systems, a larger hood over the grill, a new hood over the stove, and removed a pile of storage from in front of a door that I didn’t even know was there…it was the fire exit from the kitchen where I was working.

Of course, memories are short.