Episode 215: The Rhoads Opera House fire
Disaster Area
Disaster Area
4.2 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In a small Pennsylvania town, the play set to be performed on a cold Monday night in January drew hundreds of people to the Rhoads Opera House. One hundred and seventy of them would never make it home alive.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. This is Jennifer Matterese, and before I get started with the episode today, I'd just like to take care of the usual housekeeping. |
| 0:08.4 | As I've already mentioned in previous episodes, I put paid requests on hold for the time being. |
| 0:13.2 | When I get through my backlog, I will start up all over again. |
| 0:16.4 | Until then, I'll be working through that list with the occasional episode of my choice. |
| 0:20.6 | The subject from this |
| 0:21.5 | particular episode was chosen, sort of, by Brendan, who asked for a dealer's choice. I was going to do |
| 0:27.6 | the Winterberg Tunnel disaster for this request, but there's still a little less info on that than I would |
| 0:32.4 | like. The Rhodes Opera House Fire, however, is one of the stops, or was one of the stops, on my road trip for my book. |
| 0:39.9 | So I'd like to thank Brendan for the request and for the donation. |
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| 1:50.9 | all of that taken care of, thank you very much for listening and welcome to disaster area. Episode 215. |
| 2:06.6 | The Rhodes Opera House Fire |
| 2:09.4 | January 13, 1908s, |
| 2:13.3 | 171 deceased, dozens injured. |
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