How close did the City come to losing its most iconic neighborhood? Grapevine Residents have heard the stories: an unwatched candle, a timely partnership, and a crisis narrowly averted. Today, we're looking at the legend of a fire that could have destroyed the Historic District... but ended in a single puddle instead. 

Here's how the investigation unfolds:

00:00-01:49... the legend as we know it
01:50-04:49... meet the Grapevine Fire Department, our expert witnesses
04:50-10:30... how codes and experience help prevent fires
10:31-12:53... why Historic District buildings aren't up to modern code
12:54-14:10... the fire suppression mandate
14:11-17:35... how City officials enabled even the smallest businesses
17:36-20:15...a crash course in fire science
20:16-21:51... the criminal profile of a fire: motive, means, and opportunity
21:52-25:13... how bad could this fire have really gotten?
25:14-27:49... sprinkler dynamics and the crisis we averted.
27:50-31:58... concluding the investigation