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

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

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)

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

You'd think if your plane crashed fifty meters from the end of the runway, you'd be saved. You'd be wrong.

Videos:

• Disaster Breakdown: Locked into Disaster

Articles and books:

• The Lever of Death: The crash of Dan-Air flight 0034
• Department of Trade report on the accident

Jennifer talks about "Society of the Snow," the award-nominated adaptation of the Pablo Vierci book about the survival story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. "Society of the Snow" comes out in select theaters on December 22nd and on Netflix on January 4th. (No, Jennifer has not seen it yet. Although dear God, does she want to.)

On one February morning in 1997, a pair of men dressed in dark clothes entered a North Hollywood bank. What followed would be one of the most frightening things many Americans had ever watched live on TV up to that point.

Videos:

• Zero Hour: The North Hollywood Shootout
• North Hollywood Bank Shootout_February 28, 1997

Articles and books: 

• 20 years ago, gunbattle terrorized North Hollywood – and shocked America
• Chilling portrait of robber emerges
• Jury Unsure If Cops Let Shooter Die
• Police Kill 2 Bank Robbery Suspects in a Wild Gun Battle
• Children Offer to Drop Suit in Robber’s Death
• 20 years ago, a dramatic North Hollywood shootout changed the course of the LAPD and policing at large
• How the infamous North Hollywood shootout unfolded 20 years ago
• The LAPD use of force report for the North Hollywood shootout
• A Painful Anniversary of Shootout

On one February morning in 1997, a pair of men dressed in dark clothes entered a North Hollywood bank. What followed would be one of the most frightening things many Americans had ever watched live on TV up to that point.

Videos:

• Zero Hour: The North Hollywood Shootout
• North Hollywood Bank Shootout_February 28, 1997

Articles and books: 

• 20 years ago, gunbattle terrorized North Hollywood – and shocked America
• Chilling portrait of robber emerges
• Jury Unsure If Cops Let Shooter Die
• Police Kill 2 Bank Robbery Suspects in a Wild Gun Battle
• Children Offer to Drop Suit in Robber’s Death
• 20 years ago, a dramatic North Hollywood shootout changed the course of the LAPD and policing at large
• How the infamous North Hollywood shootout unfolded 20 years ago
• The LAPD use of force report for the North Hollywood shootout
• A Painful Anniversary of Shootout

It was just supposed to be a great night out seeing one of the best rock bands in the world. It turned out to be anything but.

Videos:

• What Really Happened During The Who Concert Disaster? We Explain
• The Who: The Night that Changed Rock

Articles and books:

• Crowd surge at a Who concert killed 11 people in 1979: ‘It was so strong, it just tore us apart’
• The Who concert 40 years later: Survivors and victims' families relive tragic night in Cincinnati
• They Survived the Who Concert from ‘Hell.’ Now, They Finally Have Closure
• Lawsuits settled in concert tragedy

Videos:

• The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (Netflix)
• Sky News Australia airs Krystal Browitt video of tour guide warning
• Trapped in the Volcano

Articles and books:

• Eruption of Whakaari (White Island) kills ten people: September 10th, 1914
• This is the family that owns the Whakaari volcanic Island
• The December 2019 hydrothermal explosion at White Island (Whakaari), New Zealand, and its lessons for Yellowstone
• White Island volcano: what we know about the victims
• White Island volcano eruption: Whakaari Management found guilty of ‘astonishing’ safety failures
• Why the New Zealand volcano eruption caught the world by surprise
• Insights into the 9 December 2019 eruption of Whakaari/White Island from analysis of TROPOMI SO2 imagery
• White Island volcano: NZ officials charge 13 parties over tragedy
• Geonet Volcanic Alert Levels