Disaster Area

Disaster Area

A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again.

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Episode 108: The Mont Blanc tunnel fire

Episode 108: The Mont Blanc tunnel fire

You're driving along on a road trip and your engine starts to smoke. You give it another half mile or so, then pull over. By the time you pop the hood, the smoke has turned into actual flames spewing ...

29 Maalis 201954min

Episode 107: The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire

Episode 107: The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire

It was a little slice of Vegas transplanted to a Kentucky hillside just outside of Cincinnati, an elegant showcase for the likes of the Rat Pack, Marilyn Monroe, Liberace, and Frankie Valli. The Bever...

21 Maalis 20191h 24min

Episode 106: The Dyatlov Pass incident

Episode 106: The Dyatlov Pass incident

In late January of 1959, ten hikers left the city of Sverdlovsk heading for an adventure in the wilderness. Only one of them returned alive. So what happened to Igor Dyatlov and the other eight hikers...

9 Maalis 20191h 19min

Episode 105: The 1996 Air Africa disaster

Episode 105: The 1996 Air Africa disaster

N'Dolo Airport could not have been any worse of an airport to take off from in 1996 if it tried. Whether it be the pitted runway or the handwaving of appropriate documentation and procedures, flying o...

22 Helmi 201943min

Episode 104: The Top Storey Club fire

Episode 104: The Top Storey Club fire

It was almost like a terribly kept secret. The Top Storey Club sat hidden away on the topmost story of an old warehouse you needed to wander through furniture workshops and storerooms on lower floors ...

16 Helmi 201940min

Episode 103: The Halifax explosion

Episode 103: The Halifax explosion

It was the worst manmade explosion in human history prior to the bombing of Hiroshima. On December 6, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia, was one of the busiest ports in the world, with wartime traffic passin...

8 Helmi 20191h 25min

Episode 102: The Great Yarmouth bridge disaster

Episode 102: The Great Yarmouth bridge disaster

Hear ye, hear ye! Come one, come all, on the evening of May 2, 1845, to see a fantastic sight! Nelson the clown of the Cooke Royal Circus will be performing for you all on the river Bure in Great Yarm...

25 Tammi 201942min

Episode 101: The Great Stink of London

Episode 101: The Great Stink of London

The river was a sewer - almost literally. In 1858 London, the Thames wound through the city carrying everything from fecal matter to slaughterhouse offal. Even worse, that was the city's drinking sour...

1 Tammi 201950min

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