WE NEED ICE - Explosion on the Railroad
WE NEED ICE - Explosion on the Railroad
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 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.
Visit this podcast's website at WENEEDICE.COM for more on the 1973 Kingman, Arizona BLEVE.
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[RADIO BROADCAST] “Attention citizens of Kingman… We need you now more than ever. The explosion, which you’ve all heard about, if not experienced first hand… Ugh, the victims… it’s, it’s very bad. We need ice! Whatever you have in the freezer or at your business, please bring it to Mohave County General Hospital. I repeat, the hospital needs ice. My God, these poor people. May God lay his hands on them and their families and if anyone has…” [BROADCASTER FADES]
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 of human bodies burned alive from a railcar propane explosion, also known as a BLEVE. If you know anything about burn injuries, you know they are the most devastating to the body and the most excruciating in pain. The ice was for the bodies. The bodies that were still alive, burning from the inside out.
The true story I’m about to tell you, will be painful to hear and hard to believe.
[WITNESS STATEMENT] “Have you ever seen WWII explosions? It was humongous. It hit children. It hit people. I think there were over 100 people injured."
That’s my friend, K, who lived in Kingman Arizona during 1973 and during the BLEVE and topic of this podcast. She’s real soft-spoken and at times a little emotional when retelling her version of these events. What you just heard her say was, “Have you ever seen WWII explosions? It was humongous. It hit children and people. I think there were over 100 people injured. "
So, if you're ready for this journey, let's get into it.
