WE NEED ICE - Explosion on the Railroad
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 come for DOXOL employees to retrieve the gas from the tanker to be stored at the plant. But, during the process of offloading the gas, something goes TERRIBLY wrong... The disaster KILLS 12, 11 who were firemen and MAIMS approximately 100 innocent citizens of the small town of Kingman, Arizona. This is the UNTOLD, TRUE STORY of the Kingman Arizona BLEVE of '73, with witness and expert accounts describing every flinching detail from the day of, to the weeks and months after the tragedy that forever changed Kingman, and the world.
Episodes
14 episodes
BONUS – WITNESS TESTIMONIAL: Gloria Cole, Mary Stock – We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
Don Cole was the Kingman, AZ journalist who was at the site of the BLEVE in ‘73, on an assignment for what he thought was to report on the tanker fire that had erupted due to a gas leak near the DOXOL plant. But, then the BLEVE occurred just as...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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30:13
BONUS – INTERVIEW: PART 2 – The Volunteer Firefighter Podcast – We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
Welcome back to We Need Ice Explosion on the railroad. We’re picking up with part 2 featuring The Volunteer Fire Fighter Podcast. The guys and I get a little deeper into the mental health aspect of fighting fires - what they see on duty and how...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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30:54
BONUS – INTERVIEW: PART 1 – The Volunteer Firefighter Podcast – We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
In this episode, I collaborate with The Volunteer Fire Fighter Podcast hosts to discuss their responsibilities as active volunteer fireman and how their volunteerism gives them a connection to the ’73 Kingman BLEVE. The guys get into with...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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28:08
BONUS – WITNESS TESTIMONIAL – Theresa Rounseville & Dennis Park – We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
A young man is riding his dirt bike to a job interview when he catches sight of the drama unfolding along the railroad. His curiosity peaks and he regretfully joins the crowd observing the hissing railcar on fire.Get to know Screenplay W...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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27:35
BONUS – WITNESS TESTIMONIAL – Police Officer: Don Martin PART 2 – We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
In Part 2 of retired Kingman Police Officer Don Martin's witness he account, we make amazing connections between his story and the story I tell in episodes 1-7. It’s more proof that bringing this event to light is worth every, sometimes p...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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24:56
BONUS – WITNESS TESTIMONIAL – Police Officer: Don Martin – We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
You didn’t think the podcast was over did you? Today, you’ll hear from one witness, Kingman resident, and retiree of the Kingman Police Department, Don Martin, who was on duty on July 5th. Don refers to July 5th, 1973 as, "A Day He ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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18:47
PART 7: GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN - We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
Join me on a stroll through Firefighters Memorial Park, a vital part of Kingman’s touristry, where the largest firefighter disaster in Arizona’s history is now commemorated.In this finale episode, I have my own memorial dedicat...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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16:40
PART 6: FIREFIGHTING REVAMPED - We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
If necessity is the mother of invention, then mass casualties are the catalyst of reinvention. If anything positive was going to come out of this disaster, it was going to be improving practices for managing such events in order to avoid rep...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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18:25
PART 5: DOXOL - We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story
Amongst the scandals, crime and natural disasters occurring and being packaged in today’s news stories, editorials and talk shows for public review, there’s always the 64-thousand-dollar question: Who is at fault? Someone has to pay, and esp...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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19:06
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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17:58
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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22:45
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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29:16
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 0
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3:28
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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