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The Invisible Gas That Turned a School into a Funeral Pyre
The Invisible Gas That Turned a School into a Funeral Pyre
An invisible, odorless cloud of residue gas filled a school crawlspace and turned an ordinary sander into a catalyst for catastrophe-nearly 300 children were inside when the building “ceased to exist.” How did a thriving Texas school sit atop a sealed reservoir of flammable gas no one could smell or see, and who failed to stop it?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events that led to the March 18, 1937 disaster in New London, Texas, describe the decisions that introduced untreated residue gas into a school’s supply, and ask…
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