A podcast covering disasters of all kinds throughout history. From tornadoes and earthquakes to mining disasters and arson. From the perspective of a professional fire investigator, I provide the history of the area, a breakdown of how and why the disaster occurs, a timeline of the event, and the resulting aftermath. Sometimes delving into the specific failure mechanisms that occurred if the disaster (or disasters) did not come from nature. Listen along as we go through them together.
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I Feel My Temperature Rising: 1980 Eruption of Mount Saint Helens
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This episode covers the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens.Por Anthony
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Island in the Night: The Grand Island Tornado Outbreak
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This episode covers the June 3, 1980 tornado outbreak in Grand Island, Nebraska.Por Anthony Finchum
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A Burning Ring of Fire: The Cocoanut Grove Fire
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This episode covers the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942.Por Anthony Finchum
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Hello friends, this is an old Patreon episode that I'm uploading to the main feed while I figure out how to actually do this again. I'm sorry for being bad at this and all of the chaos of the last year and change. And please enjoy the episode.Por Anthony Finchum
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Highway to Hell: 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans Disaster
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This episode covers the 1955 Le Mans Disaster that changed the sport of auto racing forever.Por Anthony Finchum
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This episode covers the One Meridian Plaza Fire in Philadelphia in February of 1991.Por Anthony Finchum
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Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: The 2011 Joplin Tornado
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This episode covers the 2011 Joplin Tornado.Por Anthony Finchum
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When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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This week's episode covers that famous shipwreck, the wreck of the Edmund FItzgerald.Por Anthony Finchum
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It Takes A Lot Of Water To Wash Away New Orleans: New Orleans Levee Failures
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This episode is our third and final episode on Hurricane Katrina and covers the levee failures in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.Por Anthony Finchum
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This is episode 2 of our Hurricane Katrina mini series. This episode covers Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi.Por Anthony Finchum
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Underneath a Louisiana Moon: Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
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This episode covers the formation of Hurricane Katrina and its impact in New Orleans.Por Anthony Finchum
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This week's episode covers the 99 Texas A&M Bonfire Collapse.Por Anthony Finchum
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This episode covers the 1966 Aberfan Disaster.Por Anthony Finchum
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This episode covers the New London School Explosion of 1937.Por Anthony Finchum
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We Didn’t Start the Fire: The Great Fires of New York City
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This episode covers the Great Fires of New York in 1776, 1835, and 1845.Por Anthony Finchum
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This episode covers the West Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion in April of 2013.Por Anthony Finchum
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Rolling in the Deep: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster
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This week covers the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.Por Anthony Finchum
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This episode covers the White Hurricane of 1913.Por Anthony Finchum
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This week's episode covers the 1948 Donora Death Fog.Por Anthony Finchum
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Smoke on the Horizon: The Grenfell Tower Fire
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This week's episode covers the 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire.Por Anthony Finchum
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This week's episode covers the Johnstown Flood of 1889.Por Anthony Finchum
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This episode covers Hurricane Rita on September 24, 2005.Por Anthony Finchum
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This week covers the summer of 1816, or 1800 and Froze to Death.Por Anthony Finchum
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This week's episode covers the Iroquois Theater Fire of 1903.Por Anthony Finchum
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This week's episode covers the Lac-Megantic Rail Disaster in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Canada.Por Anthony Finchum
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This episode covers the 2008 Georgia Sugar Refinery Explosion.Por Anthony Finchum
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This episode goes into the history of disasters, mismanagement, and general lack of safety surrounding the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons PlantPor Anthony Finchum
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This episode covers the 2020 Beirut Explosion.Por Anthony Finchum
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This week's episode covers the Big Bayou Canot Rail Disaster of 1993.Por Anthony Finchum
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This week's episode covers the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California.Por Anthony Finchum
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There Ain't Much in This Town: Buffalo Creek Disaster
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This week's episode covers the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia in 1972. Before listening to this episode, there is some in depth talking of survivor guilt and PTSD. I don't want any listeners to have any issues listening to this episode and if you feel you need to talk to someone, please reach out or call the National Suicide…
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This episode covers the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, landslides, tsunamis, flood, and volcanic eruption. Busy episode this week yikes.Por Anthony Finchum
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This episode covers the Minoan Eruption of 1650-1500 BCE.Por Anthony
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This episode is all about the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD.Por Anthony
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This episode covers three disasters! The Great Whiskey Fire, The Erfurt Latrine Disaster, and The Lake Peigneur Disaster.Por Anthony
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This episode covers the Upper Big Branch Mining Disaster.Por Anthony
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This week covers the 2011 Super Outbreak of Tornadoes.Por Anthony
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This week we cover the 2019 Fire in Notre Dame de Paris.Por Anthony
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This week we cover the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.Por Anthony
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This week we discuss the New York City Blackout of 1977.Por Anthony
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This week we cover a whole host of tornadoes throughout the ages in Europe.Por Anthony
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This week we cover the apparently cursed town of Moore, OklahomaPor Anthony
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This week covers the Tornado Outbreak of 1965Por Anthony
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This week's episode will cover the Lake Monoun Disaster and the Lake Nyos DisasterPor Anthony
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This week we cover the Great Quake of 1906 in San Francisco and the subsequent fires.Por Anthony
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This week's episode covers the sequel to the Great Fire of London, creatively entitled, the Second Great Fire of LondonPor Anthony
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In this week's episode we cover the First Great Fire of London.Por Anthony
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This week we discuss the events leading up to, surrounding, and aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.Por Anthony
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A discussion on the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts.Por Anthony
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A brief introduction to what this show will be and how it will run.Por Anthony
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