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When a Fire Engine Flew: The Invisible Blast That Shattered Manhattan
When a Fire Engine Flew: The Invisible Blast That Shattered Manhattan
Fear and fascination collide in a single sentence: a fire engine lifted off Broad Street, tumbled through the air, and landed burning on the other side of a warehouse - hurling bricks like cannonballs and shattering windows a mile away. What invisible force inside the Crocker and Warren warehouse did enough damage to flatten six to eight buildings, kill at least one man, and erase 345 structures by sunrise?
In this episode, we tell the story of the July 19, 1845 disaster in lower Manhattan, how veteran firefighters…
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