Disaster Area

It should have just been a regular Saturday night dancing to rock music and having a good time at the relatively new dance hall outside of Saint-Laurent, France. But in the early morning hours of November 1st, 1970, what was likely one dropped match or cigarette turned the Club Cinq-Sept into an oven. Videos: Pierre Montillo interview AP News clips of the fire Articles and books: The worst thing is the sound of silence": 50 years after the "5-7" tragedy, the memory and the grief remain intact. Youth to Burn: Guy Debord on the fire at Saint-Laurent-du-Pont Virtual Globetrotting: Diagram of the layout of the Club Cinq-Sept France: An Unusual Silence 1970: Nightclub inferno 'wipes out generation'

(Podcaster's note: The second part of the Cutter incident episode is forthcoming; I'm just trying to get it juuuuuust right. :)) November 7th, 2018, was just supposed to be another fun night of drinking and line dancing at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, CA. But at 11:18 PM, all of that ended in an instant. Videos: TikTok: shannon_mcgee visiting the site 1.5 years later TikTok: Official account of @borderlinebar RAW VIDEO: Thousand Oaks gunman seen shooting inside Borderline Bar & Grill | ABC7 Thousand Oaks shooting survivor: "My friend killed my other friends" Co-Owner Of Borderline Bar And Grill Accused Of Embezzling $43K Ventura County DA Releases New Video Of Borderline Bar Shooting Columbine Survivor Survives Virginia Tech Articles and books: Must Reads: Friends took this photo at their favorite bar in Thousand Oaks. Minutes later, the shooting started CHP officer's bullet killed sheriff's deputy who responded to Thousand Oaks bar shooting Authorities Describe 'Confusion And Chaos' At Borderline Bar Shooting In California What Thousand Oaks shooting suspect posted to social media during massacre Here Are the Victims of the Thousand Oaks Shooting First Responder Was Killed in Restaurant Mass Shooting at Same Place Where He Proposed to His Wife Borderline shooting hero Matt Wennerstrom honored at Thousand Oaks memorial after motorcycle crash The Americans who have lived through multiple mass shootings

In a bustling city of pirates and wickedness, one might think things couldn't get any more dangerous. But in the Jamaican city of Port Royal in 1692, that thought would be tested, and tested hard. Videos: History of Port Royal (Underwater Cities) Articles and books: Apocalypse 1692: Empire, Slavery, and the Great Port Royal Earthquake, by Ben Hughes Historic Earthquakes: Jamaica, 1692 June 07 UTC Jamaica Port Royal If you'd like to donate to the GFM for my car, you can find that here: https://gofund.me/a0585132

It was almost the end of a typical Tuesday for workers at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, South Carolina, in June of 2007, and several of them went out to the loading dock to smoke and kill a little time. One stray cigarette butt thrown too near the trash, and within an hour and a half nine firefighters would be dead. Videos: Charleston Fire Department's recovery from deadly Sofa Super Store fire First hour of dispatch audio from the Sofa Super Store fire Charleston 9: The Ultimate Sacrifice Line-of-Duty Death and Injury Investigations - NIST Fire Modeling - The Charleston Investigation Articles and books: Newsweek: 'It looked like Hell was burning' Post and Courier: Sofa store owner tells his side Post and Courier: Trapped: The story of nine Charleston firefighters' deaths NIST Study on Charleston Furniture Store Fire Calls for National Safety Improvements Remembering the Charleston 9: 17 years after deadly Sofa Super Store fire The Sofa Super Store fire: The blaze that reshaped the Charleston Fire Department

Let us celebrate the 250th episode of the podcast by doing literally anything else but watching "Cats." Videos: Cats: The Musical Cats (2019) The Late Late Show with James Corden: Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts with Chrissy Teigen "Cats" commercial for the Broadway show Articles and books: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot What's a Jellicle, Anyway? Everything You Need to Know About Cats Before You See the Movie 21 Funny Reactions From Critics Who Thought The New "Cats" Movie Was A Catastrophe Cats review: a sinister, all-time disaster from which no one emerges unscathed 'Oh God, my eyes': The reviews for 'Cats' are hilarious and traumatic 'It Became This Joke. But It Was the Most Spectacular Thing of Its Time.' An oral history of Cats on Broadway, as told by its original cats. Cats (2019): Performance Editing the Buttholes Out of 'Cats' Was a Total Nightmare for VFX Crew The 'Cats' trailer dropped. We have 34 questions. Cats mistake revealed as Judi Dench's character spotted with human hand and wedding ring How Do Furries Feel About the New Cats Movie? RAZZIE AWARDS 2020 WINNERS: CATS DOMINATES 40TH GOLDEN RASPBERRY AWARDS Yes, The Songs in "Cats" Are Based on These Poems by T.S. Eliot

It was a hot and muggy summer day as the steamboat Sea Wing carried passengers down the Mississippi River for what was to be a lovely excursion to the National Guard settlement near Lake City, MN. And it was ... until the storm hit. Videos: The Sea Wing Disaster So Minnesota: Haunted history of the Sea Wing disaster Sea Wing Disaster on KSMQ's "Off 90" (Sponsored by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment) Articles and books: Shipwrecked on Lake Pepin: The Sea Wing disaster Historic Disasters in Southeast Minnesota, by Steve Gardiner The Sea Wing disaster killed 98, yet the tragedy is little known beyond Red Wing

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: Netflix: Fire in Paradise Frontline: Fire in Paradise Camp Fire: One Year Later The Deadliest Fire in California History Drone fire of Camp Fire devastation in Butte County Trump confused over fire-hit town Paradise: 'Pleasure, what a name' Articles and books: Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy, by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguaino Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him, ex-aide says Trump's Misleading Claims About California's Fire 'Mismanagement' ABC10 Investigation: PG&E knew old power line parts had 'severe wear' months before deadly Camp Fire Trump blames forest management again on California fires visit The Camp Fire public report 'Hell on Earth': The First 12 Hours of California's Deadliest Wildfire