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    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 237: The Uvalde school shooting - Part Two May 27, 2024
    Show notes

    In part two of this five-part series, we see local law enforcement in Uvalde arriving at Robb Elementary, and what happens next - and what does not.

    Videos:

    • Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response

    • Frontline: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics

    • Cell phone video of the parents imploring the police to do something

    • Disturbing new footage shows Salvador Ramos in Uvalde school, cops running | New York Post

    • Ballistic Gel Human Head VS 223

    • Video: Greg Abbott and Beto O'Rourke clash over Uvalde deaths as governor provides more details on school shooting

    Articles and books:

    • Before the school shooting, Uvalde was known for a 1970 Hispanic student walkout. Its aging participants fear its spirit and memory are fading.

    • Timeline of the events leading up to, including, and following the attack on Robb Elementary

    • Department of Justice: Critical Incident Review

    • Uvalde buries 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, the first of many funerals to come

    • Texas cops' claims unravel: Police didn't "engage" Uvalde shooter — but they cuffed scared parents

    • Gunman bought two rifles, hundreds of rounds in days before massacre

    • Uvalde: 90 minutes of terror, a failed police response and shattered trust

    • Mom who saved her kids from Uvalde school shooting says police are targeting her

    • NRA holds convention in Houston days after Texas school shooting

    • Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online

    • The Pulitzer Prize: The Washington Post's winning 2023 series on the damage caused by AR-15s

    • Nearly two years after the Uvalde massacre, here's who has been reprimanded and where investigations stand

    • Uvalde school shooter's self-proclaimed ex accused of making threats against the community

    • Uvalde victim's uncle elected to school board nearly two years after shooting

    • Uvalde mayor abruptly resigns ahead of a council vote on shooting report

    • 21 lives lost: Uvalde victims were a cross-section of a small, mostly Latino town in South Texas

    • Teenage cousin of Uvalde school shooter arrested and accused of threatening to do 'the same thing'

    • Uvalde schools hire — and then fire — former DPS trooper under investigation for shooting response

    • The Gunman in Uvalde Left Multiple Hints Before His Attack Began.k.............................................................................

    Episode 236: The Uvalde school shooting - Part One May 20, 2024
    Show notes

    In the first in this five-part series, we look at the town of Uvalde, and the first moments before a normal school day goes from calm to terrifying.

    Videos:

    • Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response
    • Frontline: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics
    • Cell phone video of the parents imploring the police to do something
    • Disturbing new footage shows Salvador Ramos in Uvalde school, cops running | New York Post
    • Ballistic Gel Human Head VS 223
    • Video: Greg Abbott and Beto O'Rourke clash over Uvalde deaths as governor provides more details on school shooting

    Articles and books:

    • Before the school shooting, Uvalde was known for a 1970 Hispanic student walkout. Its aging participants fear its spirit and memory are fading.
    • Timeline of the events leading up to, including, and following the attack on Robb Elementary
    • Department of Justice: Critical Incident Review
    • Uvalde buries 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, the first of many funerals to come
    • Texas cops' claims unravel: Police didn't "engage" Uvalde shooter — but they cuffed scared parents
    • Gunman bought two rifles, hundreds of rounds in days before massacre
    • Uvalde: 90 minutes of terror, a failed police response and shattered trust
    • Mom who saved her kids from Uvalde school shooting says police are targeting her
    • NRA holds convention in Houston days after Texas school shooting
    • Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online
    • The Pulitzer Prize: The Washington Post's winning 2023 series on the damage caused by AR-15s
    • Nearly two years after the Uvalde massacre, here's who has been reprimanded and where investigations stand
    • Uvalde school shooter's self-proclaimed ex accused of making threats against the community
    • Uvalde victim's uncle elected to school board nearly two years after shooting
    • Uvalde mayor abruptly resigns ahead of a council vote on shooting report
    • 21 lives lost: Uvalde victims were a cross-section of a small, mostly Latino town in South Texas
    • Teenage cousin of Uvalde school shooter arrested and accused of threatening to do 'the same thing'
    • Uvalde schools hire — and then fire — former DPS trooper under investigation for shooting response
    • The Gunman in Uvalde Left Multiple Hints Before His Attack Began
    Episode 235: The Eschede train disaster May 01, 2024
    Show notes

    A year ago this week, I covered the Amagasaki train derailment in 2005 in Japan. Why not cover a second one seven years earlier near a small town in Germany?

    Videos:

    • Seconds from Disaster: The Eschede derailment
    • TS2018 Rail Disasters - Derailment at High Speed (1998 Eschede train disaster)
    • What Went Wrong: Countdown to Catastrophe: The Eschede Disaster

    Articles and books:

    • Page about the Eschede train disaster memorial
    • Germany recalls the Eschede train disaster
    • The Cost of Comfort: The 1998 Eschede Train Derailment
    Episode 234: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Three Apr 14, 2024
    Show notes

    It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.

    Videos:

    • A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906

    • Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

    • The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary

    • Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred

    • San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]

    Articles and books:

    • The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts

    • The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation

    Episode 233: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Two Apr 07, 2024
    Show notes

    It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.

    Videos:

    • A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906

    • Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

    • The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary

    • Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred

    • San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]

    Articles and books:

    • The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts

    • The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation

    Episode 232: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part One Mar 31, 2024
    Show notes

    It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.

    Videos:

    • A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906
    • Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
    • The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary
    • Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred
    • San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]

    Articles and books:

    • The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
    • The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation
    Episode 231: The Peshtigo fire Mar 06, 2024
    Show notes

    The deadliest fire in American history happened not in Chicago, but in a small Wisconsin town to the north of Chicago on the exact same day - October 8th, 1871.

    Videos:

    • Watch now: The story of the tabernacle in the Peshtigo Fire

    • Lake Michigan shipwreck; sank during 1871 Peshtigo Fire

    Articles and books:

    • Firestorm at Peshtigo, by Denise Gess and William Lotz

    • The Great Midwest Wildfires of 1871

    • Wisconsin Shipwrecks: The George L. Newman

    Episode 230: The sinking of the USS Thresher Feb 28, 2024
    Show notes

    On April 9th, 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher departed Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for depth tests in the Atlantic. It would never return.

    Videos:

    • Second Saturday: The Loss of the USS Thresher
    • Finding the Titanic | Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life

    Articles and books:

    • U.S. Naval Institute: What Killed the Thresher?
    • Arlington National Cemetery: USS Thresher memorial
    • Titanic Discovery was By-Product of Military Quest
    • The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster, by Norman Polmar
    • Navy documents reveal officer flagged "dangerous condition" before deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history
    Episode 229: The Collinwood school fire Jan 31, 2024
    Show notes

    The deadliest school fire in American history took place on - of all days - Ash Wednesday, March 8th, 1908, in the Cleveland suburb of Collinwood just after first period ended. Within a half hour, 172 students and three adults would be dead, or close to it.

    Videos:

    • Cleveland Public Library: Collinwood school fire

    Articles and books:

    • The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History, by James Jessen Badal
    • The neighborhood never forgets
    • Collinwood school fire: 100 years later, an angel still kneels over the children
    • REMEMBERING THE LAKEVIEW SCHOOL FIRE (ALSO KNOWN AS COLLINWOOD SCHOOL FIRE)
    Review: Society of the Snow Jan 11, 2024
    Show notes

    Jennifer stops rewatching the movie long enough to review the movie. Spoilers ahead!

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