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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.

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WE NEED ICE - Explosion on the Railroad

BONUS – WITNESS TESTIMONIAL: Gloria Cole, Mary Stock – We Need Ice - The Kingman BLEVE True Story

July 28, 2024 • Meg Maran • Season 1 • Episode 13

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 Don was arriving to the scene, and as a civilian, Don ended up jumping into one of the rescue vehicles (that wasn’t yet completely engulfed in flames) and made several trips to and from the hospital transporting the burned and gravely injured men from the explosion site.

Don Cole has since passed away. But my guests today are his dear wife, Gloria Cole and his sweet daughter, Mary Stock. They’re going to help me build on Don’s legacy and share some of their experiences from the time period of the 1973 Kingman Arizona BLEVE.

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