E71 El Desastre de la Presa de St. Francis
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March 27, 2025 · 31 min · Season 5 · Episode 71
About this episode
This episode discusses the catastrophic failure of the St. Francis Dam in 1928 and its impact on California history.
The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States, that was built between 1924 and 1926. The dam failed catastrophically in 1928, killing at least 431 people in the subsequent flood, in what is considered to have been one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and the third-greatest loss of life in California history. The dam was built to serve...
Topics covered
- engineering disasters
- California history
- flooding
- civil engineering
- historical events
Keywords
- St. Francis Dam
- flood
- engineering disaster
- California
- 1928
Mentioned in this episode
Places: San Francisquito Canyon, Los Angeles County, California
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