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WARWICK, R.I.-
One owner of a nightclub where 100 people died in a fire sparked by a band’s pyrotechnics received four years in prison Friday, and the other was sentenced to probation as the victims’ relatives vented their anger over what they considered to be overly lenient sentences.
Michael Derderian, who received the prison time, and his brother, Jeffrey, pleaded no contest to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the 2003 fire, which quickly engulfed The Station nightclub because they had installed highly flammable foam to ease neighbors’ noise concerns.
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