One of Lynch 's first responsibilities as attorney general was to oversee the criminal investigation of the February 20 , 2003 , Station nightclub fire in West Warwick . With 100 deaths and many more injuries , the fire was the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history and the second-deadliest fire ever in Rhode Island , trailing only the USS '' Bennington '' fire that claimed 103 lives in the 1950s . The criminal investigation led to the sentencing of Daniel Biechele , the tour manager of the band whose pyrotechnics started the fire , and also resulted in no-contest pleas by the two co-owners of the nightclub
Station nightclub fire
The Station nightclub fire
Patrick Lynch (Rhode Island attorney general)