Disaster Area
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A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again.
Disaster Area
5d ago
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.
Videos:
A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906
Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary
Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred
San Francisco after the devastating earthqu ..read more
Disaster Area
1w ago
It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.
Videos:
A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906
Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary
Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred
San Francisco after the devastating earthqu ..read more
Disaster Area
1M ago
The deadliest fire in American history happened not in Chicago, but in a small Wisconsin town to the north of Chicago on the exact same day - October 8th, 1871.
Videos:
Watch now: The story of the tabernacle in the Peshtigo Fire
Lake Michigan shipwreck; sank during 1871 Peshtigo Fire
Articles and books:
Firestorm at Peshtigo, by Denise Gess and William Lotz
The Great Midwest Wildfires of 1871
Wisconsin Shipwrecks: The George L. Newman
  ..read more
Disaster Area
1M ago
On April 9th, 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher departed Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for depth tests in the Atlantic. It would never return.
Videos:
Second Saturday: The Loss of the USS Thresher
Finding the Titanic | Bob Ballard: An Explorer’s Life
Articles and books:
U.S. Naval Institute: What Killed the Thresher?
Arlington National Cemetery: USS Thresher memorial
Titanic Discovery was By-Product of Military Quest
The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster, by Norman Polmar
Navy documents reveal officer flagged "dangerous condition ..read more
Disaster Area
2M ago
The deadliest school fire in American history took place on - of all days - Ash Wednesday, March 8th, 1908, in the Cleveland suburb of Collinwood just after first period ended. Within a half hour, 172 students and three adults would be dead, or close to it.
Videos:
Cleveland Public Library: Collinwood school fire
Articles and books:
The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History, by James Jessen Badal
The neighborhood never forgets
Collinwood school fire: 100 years later, an angel still kneels over the children
REMEMBERING THE LAKEVIEW SCHOOL FIRE (ALSO KNOWN ..read more
Disaster Area
3M ago
Jennifer stops rewatching the movie long enough to review the movie. Spoilers ahead ..read more
Disaster Area
3M ago
You'd think if your plane crashed fifty meters from the end of the runway, you'd be saved. You'd be wrong.
Videos:
Disaster Breakdown: Locked into Disaster
Articles and books:
The Lever of Death: The crash of Dan-Air flight 0034
Department of Trade report on the accident ..read more
Disaster Area
4M ago
On one February morning in 1997, a pair of men dressed in dark clothes entered a North Hollywood bank. What followed would be one of the most frightening things many Americans had ever watched live on TV up to that point.
Videos:
Zero Hour: The North Hollywood Shootout
North Hollywood Bank Shootout_February 28, 1997
Articles and books:
20 years ago, gunbattle terrorized North Hollywood – and shocked America
Chilling portrait of robber emerges
Jury Unsure If Cops Let Shooter Die
Police Kill 2 Bank Robbery Suspects in a Wild Gun Battle
Children Offer to Drop Suit in Robber’s Death
20 ye ..read more
Disaster Area
5M ago
On one February morning in 1997, a pair of men dressed in dark clothes entered a North Hollywood bank. What followed would be one of the most frightening things many Americans had ever watched live on TV up to that point.
Videos:
Zero Hour: The North Hollywood Shootout
North Hollywood Bank Shootout_February 28, 1997
Articles and books:
20 years ago, gunbattle terrorized North Hollywood – and shocked America
Chilling portrait of robber emerges
Jury Unsure If Cops Let Shooter Die
Police Kill 2 Bank Robbery Suspects in a Wild Gun Battle
Children Offer to Drop Suit in Robber’s Death
20 ye ..read more
Disaster Area
5M ago
It was just supposed to be a great night out seeing one of the best rock bands in the world. It turned out to be anything but.
Videos:
What Really Happened During The Who Concert Disaster? We Explain
The Who: The Night that Changed Rock
Articles and books:
Crowd surge at a Who concert killed 11 people in 1979: ‘It was so strong, it just tore us apart’
The Who concert 40 years later: Survivors and victims' families relive tragic night in Cincinnati
They Survived the Who Concert from ‘Hell.’ Now, They Finally Have Closure
Lawsuits settled in concert tragedy ..read more