The Tacoa Fire Flood of 1982 | Episode 9

We’re heading to South America to talk about a disaster so spectacular that over a thousand Americans recreate it in their own home every year.

In this episode: we will describe a deep fryer the size of a department store and flesh dripping from bodies like wax from a candle. In fact, this is the first episode we’ve done that requires two separate safety segments.

This was another in our long line of bad-day-at-work stories, but also in the thread of disasters that could not have happened without a series of contributing factors all falling perfectly into line. We really played up fire safety. It’s because this is the first episode where all the ingredients for disaster are right there in your kitchen.

I had no idea how many of listeners were industrial disaster fanatics until this episode. The thing was, because the show was so new still, new listeners were amassing by the week and much of the feedback I got was applauding and/or questioning how gory and frightening and unexpected this show was to listen to compared to other disaster shows. Humour plus gore plus safety was a strange pill to swallow, but you’re all here now, so I think it was a good formula to bet on.


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