Injuries Sustained and Lessons Learned from the 2003 Station Nightclub Fire

The 2003 Station nightclub fire—one of the deadliest in American history— resulted in over 200 injuries and 100 deaths. At the time, Dr. Colleen Ryan was serving as the co-director of the Sumner Redstone Burn Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she provided care to numerous burn patients after this mass casualty burn incident (MCBI). We interviewed Dr. Ryan (currently a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and Staff Surgeon at both Sumner Redstone Burn Center and Shriners Children’s-Boston) to learn more about the incident and the progress that has been made in the MCBI and burn injury fields since 2003 for Issue 20 of the ASPR TRACIE Exchange.