WARWICK, R.I. – Relatives of the 100 people who died in a 2003 nightclub fire cried and held each other Saturday during the unveiling of a so-called satellite memorial to their loved ones.

The dedication capped a month in which a yearslong effort to secure the West Warwick site of the fire for another memorial finally came to fruition.

The Warwick memorial places a special focus on the 10 Warwick residents who died in the Feb. 20, 2003, fire at The Station nightclub, which happened when pyrotechnics for the rock band Great White ignited flammable foam that lined the walls of the club.

Nine of the Warwick residents’ names are inscribed in a granite slab that sits at the top of a 28-foot-diameter brick circular plaza.

Around the exterior of the circle are 100 8-by-8-inch bricks inscribed with the name of every person who died.

Each victim’s name was read aloud as the memorial was dedicated.

“It is my hope that this memorial serves as a stepping stone to the memorial in West Warwick,” said Jody King, the driving force behind the Warwick memorial. His brother, Tracy, was a bouncer at The Station nightclub and died there that night.

Plans for the Warwick memorial were announced just over a month ago and initially bothered some family members. At the time, the site of the fire was still in private hands.

Plans are moving forward for the memorial at the fire site in West Warwick, and a groundbreaking is scheduled there for the spring.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee said Saturday the Warwick memorial and the donation of the land at the fire site in West Warwick are “big steps toward healing.”