Ty Longley was credited with saving others after the flames erupted from pyrotechnics on stage before he died. "My own father gave his life to save others' lives," Acey Longley said.

Says Longley’s friend, hard-rock drummer Anthony Biuso, “Ty had no ego whatsoever. He had none of the entitlement issues that some people have.” Longley often answered fan e-mail on Great ...

Russell was fronting his band in 2003 the night 100 people — including the band’s guitarist Ty Longley — died in a fire at a Rhode Island nightclub, where more than 200 others were injured.

FILE - Singer Jack Russell, of the band Great White, performs during a benefit to honor the memory of the band's guitarist Ty Longley at the Key Club in West Hollywood, Calif., on April 29, 2003 ...

Ty Longley, a guitarist for Great White, died in the fire, but Russell and others survived. Russell was among those who found themselves at the center of the finger-pointing in the wake of the fire.

The fire killed 100 people, including the band’s guitarist, Ty Longley, and injured more than 200 others. ″It was a horrible tragedy,” Russell told The Roanoke Times in Virginia in 2010.

FILE – Singer Jack Russell, of the band Great White, performs during a benefit to honor the memory of the band’s guitarist Ty Longley at the Key Club in West Hollywood, Calif., on April 29, 2003.

Singer Jack Russell, of the band Great White, performs during a benefit to honor the memory of the band's guitarist Ty Longley at the Key Club in West Hollywood, Calif., on April 29, 2003.