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Chattanooga requires nightclub fire sprinklers

June 7, 2011Tess Nacelewicz

PATTERSON, N.Y.—Testimony from a burn survivor of a deadly nightclub fire in Rhode Island helped persuade the city of Chattanooga, Tenn. this spring to require nightclubs to install fire sprinklers as of 2013, according to the National Fire Sprinkler Association, which is based here. The NFSA asked Robert Feeney, who was severely burned and lost his fiancee and three friends in The Station nightclub fire in 2003 in West Warwick, R.I., to testify before the Chattanooga City Council about...

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