In this video I note that the fire had a lasting impact on the operations of the Tucson Fire Department... a positive impact. It's only because of this fire that the Department has access to the resources and training it does today.
But this positive impact came at a cost. Right af...
2022-05-17 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere should be a video displaying above... but Patreon doesn't seem to like shorts. I've gotten in touch with Patreon support and they say that it's a problem on their end, and that they're working on it, but that they have no idea when it will be fixed. So, in the meantime, here's a...
2022-05-13 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll be the first to admit that I know absolutely nothing about golf... so this was an interesting story to research. Getting my head around the difference between the PGA Championship Tour (a tour) and the PGA Tour (the company that organises the tour) was just one of several learning e...
2022-05-10 10:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
There should be a video displaying above... but Patreon doesn't seem to like shorts. I've gotten in touch with Patreon support and they say that it's a problem on their end, and that they're working on it, but that they have no idea when it will be fixed. So, in the meantime, here's a...
2022-05-06 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I spent a huge amount of time trawling the internet to try and find pictures of the inside of the Sampoong Department Store before the collapse... but I just couldn't track down any. The outside of the building - with its pink colouring - is so distinctive that I was extremely curious about the i...
2022-05-03 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you want to learn more about this disaster, I'd recommend the excellent book The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives by Bryant Simon.
Not only does i...
2022-04-26 10:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostThere should be a video displaying above... but Patreon doesn't seem to like shorts. I've gotten in touch with Patreon support and they say that it's a problem on their end, and that they're working on it, but that they have no idea when it will be fixed. So, in the meantime, here's a...
2022-04-22 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Marchioness Disaster is one of many accidents that has since been made into a dramatized film. I looked everywhere to see if I could find a copy online, but couldn't. I did come across 2022-04-19 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In terms of the area affected, this has to be one of the biggest disasters I've ever covered. It's extraordinary how much material there is out there; thousands of people were lucky enough to survive, and every one of them had a story to tell.
You can find some of those stories 2022-04-12 10:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a very interesting video to research. Given that it was an event attended by at least 300,000 people, there are endless accounts of the Altamont Free Concert floating around on the internet - many of which completely disagree with one another.
If you're interested in learning more ...
2022-04-05 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is mostly just a bit of fun, but while I was watching and re-watching the film which inspired it, I couldn't help but notice that InGen really does fail to follow a bunch of basic safety principles.
First and foremost, the systems in place don't fail safely. If the power fails or...
2022-04-01 09:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
During this video, I show a picture of a yellow school bus perched precariously on the edge of a piece of concrete rubble. You can read the full story of that school bus right here.<...
2022-03-29 10:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
There was one little side story to this piece that I wanted to include, but couldn't quite find space for. It's certainly an interesting one, though, as it shows that animals and people lived in close proximity back in the 1800s, and that this disaster was a pretty terrible time for the city's an...
2022-03-22 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
There are many tangents and side stories to this disaster that I wasn't able to include in the video. One of them really stuck out to me, though: the story of Barbara Morgan.
Barbara was also selected as part of the Teacher in Space Program, and was to be Christa McAuliffe's backup. She was...
2022-03-15 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This was another story where being able to virtually visit the location where events took place was incredibly helpful in the course of telling the story. 2022-03-08 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It can sometimes be difficult, when researching these stories, to pick apart fact from fiction - that was particularly tricky with this story. Not only are the many conflicting accounts of Christopher's life... but there has also been a fictionalised version of his story told in the film...
2022-03-01 11:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I never got to travel on Concorde when it was still in service... but my older brother did. I asked him what it was like while I was researching this video, and he said it wasn't as great as it sounds.
Apparently the food and the service were both amazing - like being in a flying f...
2022-02-22 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Something I came across while researching this video really stuck with me. I mention briefly that obscene graffiti was found in the ruins of Pompeii. You can actually read translations of 2022-02-15 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Often, when researching a video, I find that a lot of the resources which might be most useful have simply disappeared from the internet. That was the case with the full version of the report on this accident.
Whenever this happens, I always make sure to check the 2022-02-08 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I have fond memories of visiting Woolworths as a child. There was no other high street store like it at the time. If you'd asked me back then I couldn't really have told you what it sold - except that it was "a little bit of everything". The huge selection of pick 'n' mix sweets was definitely th...
2022-02-01 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a disaster I've been asked to cover many times over the last year or so... but I always had to put it off because there was so much reading to do, so much material to cover, and so many details to get to grips with.
If you want to learn more, the 2022-01-25 11:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever since I learned about this disaster it's a story that I've been wanting to tell. What the survivors went through is really quite extraordinary... and it's a part of World War II that I thing everyone should know about.
One thing that I wanted to include more detail on was the role of L...
2022-01-18 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a really interesting (and actually quite enjoyable) topic to research. Although each of these broadcasts did cause quite a bit of fear and uncertainty, there were at least no recorded deaths or serious injuries in each case. Phew.
If you want to listen to a recording of the origina...
2022-01-11 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I quote Alf Morris, a survivor who was interviewed by the author of Spitalfields Life in February 2010. I use only a small part of the interview in the video, but it really is worth reading the whole thing. Alf gives such a clear and moving description of what it was like t...
2022-01-04 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
There was so much about this story that I couldn't find space for in the video, but the thing I most regret leaving out is what happened to the people involved afterwards.
Incredibly, both pilots went back to flying, and had long and successful careers. Tim Lancaster even dealt with a...
2021-12-28 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I first learned that legionella existed many years ago when I was working at a University. Over the course of the summer (when most of the accommodation on campus was empty) maintenance teams had to go around running the showers in every empty room at least once a week.
One day I asked them...
2021-12-21 11:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This story is one that I've wanted to cover for a while... it's one of those true stories that seems so strange and unlikely that it reads more like fiction. Although the ending is rather saddening, it was fascinating to research it.
One of my best sources in this case was the book The ...
2021-12-14 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to Archives New Zealand, I was able to source several crystal clear, detailed images to put into this video. The clarity and sharpness of the pictures sometimes made it hard to appreciate that this disaster took place more t...
2021-12-07 11:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this video I mention that there was a very large number of Pacific Southwest Airlines employees on board Flight 182 when it crashed. Here's my source for that, which provides a little more about those emplo...
2021-11-30 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A great starting point for finding out about incidents which have taken place during Black Friday sales is this website, which keeps track of deaths and injuries attributable to the event year on year. I'll be watching to ...
2021-11-23 11:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post