Disaster Area

In part two of this five-part series, we see local law enforcement in Uvalde arriving at Robb Elementary, and what happens next - and what does not.

Videos:

• Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response

• Frontline: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics

• Cell phone video of the parents imploring the police to do something

• Disturbing new footage shows Salvador Ramos in Uvalde school, cops running | New York Post

• Ballistic Gel Human Head VS 223

• Video: Greg Abbott and Beto O'Rourke clash over Uvalde deaths as governor provides more details on school shooting

Articles and books:

• Before the school shooting, Uvalde was known for a 1970 Hispanic student walkout. Its aging participants fear its spirit and memory are fading.

• Timeline of the events leading up to, including, and following the attack on Robb Elementary

• Department of Justice: Critical Incident Review

• Uvalde buries 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, the first of many funerals to come

• Texas cops' claims unravel: Police didn't "engage" Uvalde shooter — but they cuffed scared parents

• Gunman bought two rifles, hundreds of rounds in days before massacre

• Uvalde: 90 minutes of terror, a failed police response and shattered trust

• Mom who saved her kids from Uvalde school shooting says police are targeting her

• NRA holds convention in Houston days after Texas school shooting

• Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online

• The Pulitzer Prize: The Washington Post's winning 2023 series on the damage caused by AR-15s

• Nearly two years after the Uvalde massacre, here's who has been reprimanded and where investigations stand

• Uvalde school shooter's self-proclaimed ex accused of making threats against the community

• Uvalde victim's uncle elected to school board nearly two years after shooting

• Uvalde mayor abruptly resigns ahead of a council vote on shooting report

• 21 lives lost: Uvalde victims were a cross-section of a small, mostly Latino town in South Texas

• Teenage cousin of Uvalde school shooter arrested and accused of threatening to do 'the same thing'

• Uvalde schools hire — and then fire — former DPS trooper under investigation for shooting response

• The Gunman in Uvalde Left Multiple Hints Before His Attack Began.k.............................................................................

In the first in this five-part series, we look at the town of Uvalde, and the first moments before a normal school day goes from calm to terrifying.

Videos:

• Frontline: Inside the Uvalde Response
• Frontline: After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics
• Cell phone video of the parents imploring the police to do something
• Disturbing new footage shows Salvador Ramos in Uvalde school, cops running | New York Post
• Ballistic Gel Human Head VS 223
• Video: Greg Abbott and Beto O'Rourke clash over Uvalde deaths as governor provides more details on school shooting

Articles and books:

• Before the school shooting, Uvalde was known for a 1970 Hispanic student walkout. Its aging participants fear its spirit and memory are fading.
• Timeline of the events leading up to, including, and following the attack on Robb Elementary
• Department of Justice: Critical Incident Review
• Uvalde buries 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, the first of many funerals to come
• Texas cops' claims unravel: Police didn't "engage" Uvalde shooter — but they cuffed scared parents
• Gunman bought two rifles, hundreds of rounds in days before massacre
• Uvalde: 90 minutes of terror, a failed police response and shattered trust
• Mom who saved her kids from Uvalde school shooting says police are targeting her
• NRA holds convention in Houston days after Texas school shooting
• Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online
• The Pulitzer Prize: The Washington Post's winning 2023 series on the damage caused by AR-15s
• Nearly two years after the Uvalde massacre, here's who has been reprimanded and where investigations stand
• Uvalde school shooter's self-proclaimed ex accused of making threats against the community
• Uvalde victim's uncle elected to school board nearly two years after shooting
• Uvalde mayor abruptly resigns ahead of a council vote on shooting report
• 21 lives lost: Uvalde victims were a cross-section of a small, mostly Latino town in South Texas
• Teenage cousin of Uvalde school shooter arrested and accused of threatening to do 'the same thing'
• Uvalde schools hire — and then fire — former DPS trooper under investigation for shooting response
• The Gunman in Uvalde Left Multiple Hints Before His Attack Began

A year ago this week, I covered the Amagasaki train derailment in 2005 in Japan. Why not cover a second one seven years earlier near a small town in Germany?

Videos:

• Seconds from Disaster: The Eschede derailment
• TS2018 Rail Disasters - Derailment at High Speed (1998 Eschede train disaster)
• What Went Wrong: Countdown to Catastrophe: The Eschede Disaster

Articles and books:

• Page about the Eschede train disaster memorial
• Germany recalls the Eschede train disaster
• The Cost of Comfort: The 1998 Eschede Train Derailment

It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.

Videos:

• A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906

• Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

• The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary

• Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred

• San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]

Articles and books:

• The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts

• The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation

It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.

Videos:

• A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906

• Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

• The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary

• Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred

• San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]

Articles and books:

• The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts

• The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation

It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.

Videos:

• A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906
• Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
• The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary
• Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred
• San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]

Articles and books:

• The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
• The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation

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!