WE NEED ICE - Explosion on the Railroad
WE NEED ICE - Explosion on the Railroad
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TRAILER - We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
July 5th, 1973 - A railcar sits on a spur of the Santa Fe Railroad. For about a month, it has served as a "holding tank" for 33,000 gallons of propane gas belonging to the nearby DOXOL Gas Plant.The time has co...
PART 1: BOOM ATOP THE TRAIN - We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
On July 5th, 1973, the, “We Need Ice” message was broadcast across a dedicated Kingman Arizona radio station. The local hospital requesting ice cubes from residents’ freezers? What on earth for?It was for the bodies. The dozens...
PART 2: THE BIG BLEVE - We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
One Doxol worker is dead from the explosion atop rail car #38214 which occurred on July 5, 1973 in Kingman, Arizona.Kingman Firefighters, mostly volunteers, race to the scene to extinguish the fire and prevent another propane a...
PART 3: BURNING FLESH & HOSPITAL MAYHEM - We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
A man lies in the street, arms stretched out as he tries to crawl to safety. Pain and fear are conveyed across his badly burned face, totally black, just a thin mohawk of singed hair runs down the center of his crown. His pants have been mos...
PART 4: THE AFTERMATH & KINGMAN STRONG - We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
The death toll rises each day for the small town of Kingman, Arizona in the weeks following July 5, 1973.Witness and hospital volunteer, “K,” remembers how fellow Kingman residents stepped up to care for the children of those f...
