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 28: The Gothenburg discotheque fire

Episode 28: The Gothenburg discotheque fire

The Halloween party thrown by the Macedonian Association in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1998 was a popular event -- far too popular. Teenagers crammed in shoulder to shoulder with barely enough room to dan...

24 Tammi 201749min

Episode 27: The Carrollton bus collision

Episode 27: The Carrollton bus collision

It was a beautiful day to visit Kings Island in Ohio, and church groups poured from buses to enjoy the rides and games. One of those groups, the Radcliff Assembly of God and their friends, would trave...

16 Tammi 20171h 8min

Episode 26: Aeromexico Flight 498

Episode 26: Aeromexico Flight 498

August 31, 1986, was a beautiful day to fly the skies over the neighborhood of Cerritos in Los Angeles. William Kramer was on his way to Big Bear Lake in his Piper Cherokee with his wife and daughter....

7 Tammi 20171h 7min

Episode 25: The story of Marten Hartwell

Episode 25: The story of Marten Hartwell

Marten Hartwell was a bush pilot in the wilds of northern Canada tasked with an emergency medivac flight to Yellowknife. He and his three passengers never made it. But Hartwell did end up rescued aliv...

31 Joulu 201653min

Episode 24: The Schoolhouse Blizzard

Episode 24: The Schoolhouse Blizzard

The morning of January 12, 1888, towns across the Great Plains of the United States encountered relatively warm weather for an area experiencing a frigid winter. But the afternoon would bring a nasty ...

26 Joulu 20161h 31min

Movie Break: Dante's Peak

Movie Break: Dante's Peak

This week, Jennifer found a wine she likes (a first!) so she's taking a break from researching the next episode to watch Dante's Peak, where everything is made up and the facts don't matter. Except fo...

24 Joulu 20161h 41min

Episode 23: The eruption of Mount St. Helens

Episode 23: The eruption of Mount St. Helens

Sunday dawned warm and sunny in the Cascade mountain range. Hikers and fishermen savored the beautiful weather that morning, sure they were far from the danger they knew had been rumbling for weeks no...

17 Joulu 20161h 25min

Episode 22: Avianca Flight 52

Episode 22: Avianca Flight 52

When LaMia Flight 2933 crashed in Colombia in November, the possible causes echoed a crash which occurred almost twenty-seven years ago in New York. Avianca Flight 52 came down on a slope in Cove Neck...

9 Joulu 20161h 7min

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