Disaster Area
For years, the hook holding up the power lines at transmission tower 27/222 in northern California had been wearing down bit by bit. On November 8th, 2018, the hook finally broke, and the resulting series of events led to the deadliest wildfire in California in a century. Videos: Articles and books: , by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguaino
info_outline Episode 247: The Camp Fire - Part OneDisaster Area
For years, the hook holding up the power lines at transmission tower 27/222 in northern California had been wearing down bit by bit. On November 8th, 2018, the hook finally broke, and the resulting series of events led to the deadliest wildfire in California in a century. Videos: Articles and books: , by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguaino
info_outline Episode 246: The Heath High School shootingDisaster Area
Sometimes it feels as though Columbine was our first experience with school shootings. But it very much wasn't, as the town of West Paducah, Kentucky, can attest. Videos: Articles and books: , by Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, David J. Harding, Jal Metha, and Wendy Roth
info_outline Episode 245: The sinking of the SS Atlantic - Part TwoDisaster Area
In part two, we watch as the Atlantic continues to head toward the southern coast of Nova Scotia ... with dangerous consequences. Videos: Articles and books: by Bob Chaulk
info_outline Episode 244: The sinking of the SS Atlantic - Part OneDisaster Area
It's been a rough week and a half on stormy seas as you and your family make the trip from Ireland to your new home in America in March of 1873. Now finally, the ship is making a stop in Halifax to refuel and you might all be able to rest. But there will be no rest for the passengers on the SS Atlantic. Videos: Articles and books: by Bob Chaulk
info_outline Episode 243: The Kiss nightclub fireDisaster Area
It was just supposed to be a fun college party with a great band at a popular Brazil nightclub. But once the pyrotechnics came out, Kiss turned into Hell in an instant. Videos: Inside Kiss nightclub, purportedly minutes before the fire started: and Tiktok video from of the ceremony prior to the nightclub's demolition Articles and books:
info_outline Episode 242: The Itaewon Halloween crush - Part TwoDisaster Area
It was the first Halloween that the streets would be open in Seoul, South Korea, since the start of the COVID pandemic, and young people in the city couldn't wait to go celebrate in the vibrant Itaewon neighborhood. Many of them wouldn't make it home. Videos: Articles and books:
info_outline Episode 241: The Itaewon Halloween crush - Part OneDisaster Area
It was the first Halloween that the streets would be open in Seoul, South Korea, since the start of the COVID pandemic, and young people in the city couldn't wait to go celebrate in the vibrant Itaewon neighborhood. Many of them wouldn't make it home. Videos: Articles and books:
info_outline Episode 240: The Uvalde school shooting - Part FiveDisaster Area
In the final part of this series, we learn about the perpetrator as well as the investigations which have followed in the past two years. Videos: Articles and books: .
info_outline Episode 239: The Uvalde school shooting - Part FourDisaster Area
In part four of this five-part series, we watch as people realize just how flawed the police response at Robb Elementary really was. Videos: Articles and books: .
info_outlineIt's the first night of winter on a windy night in Scotland when a loud noise broke the quiet over a small village. What followed was a fiery nightmare caused by the cruel intentions of others.
Videos:
- Air Crash Investigations: Pan Am Flight 103
- Lockerbie Bombing: Smithsonian special on Paramount+
Articles and books:
- AAIB report on Pan Am Flight 103
- Skygods, by Robert Gandt
- Colonel Gaddafi 'ordered Lockerbie bombing'
- Anger at Lockerbie bomber welcome
- Pan Am Jet Crashes in Scotland, Killing 270
- Libya Admits Culpability In Crash of Pan Am Plane
- Lockerbie and the worst Christmas imaginable
- New Charges in Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing
- Lockerbie bombing suspect is now in US custody
- Pan Am Flight 103 Terrorist Suspect in Custody for 1988 Bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland
- Syracuse University Remembrance Week Schedule 2023