Episode 31: The Westwego grain elevator explosion
Disaster Area · Disaster Area
February 20, 201745m 22s
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Show Notes
Dust seems so harmless most of the time ... annoying, sure, but not deadly. However, on December 22, 1977, dust would lead to the sudden and tragic destruction of a Louisiana grain elevator, taking the lives of 36 people only days before Christmas. However, theirs was not the only facility to suffer an explosion that week, or even that day.