A duty to respond
BY DANIEL BARBARISI
Providence Journal Staff Writer
CRANSTON, R.I. — When is a firefighter not a firefighter?
Steven Burgess thought he was a firefighter the night The Station nightclub burned to the ground. He went as a concertgoer, out on a date.
But as the fire consumed the club, the Cranston firefighter joined West Warwick’s Fire Department, fire hose in hand, as they fought the blaze — standing close enough that the heat burned his clothes and singed his eyebrows off.
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