Why There Aren't So Many Hotel Fires Anymore

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

1946 was a particularly deadly year for hotel fires in the US. Fires killed hundreds of people in Chicago, Dubuque, Dallas and, in Atlanta, the worst hotel fire in American history broke out. Find out how they made staying in hotels safe.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuffworks.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.1	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's over there, the gang's
0:47.8	all here, which means that it's time for stuff you should know.
0:51.9	So settle down everybody.
0:53.3	That'd be quiet.
0:54.3	Yeah, the hotel fire edition, which will not be chock full of laughs probably.
1:01.9	No, no, it really won't.
1:05.4	I don't know what it is about hotel fires that always fascinated me, but they did.
1:09.4	I think it was the 1980 MGM Grandfire that got me.
1:13.8	Oh yeah.
1:14.8	Yeah, but there's just something extra creepy about a hotel fire to me and it turns out that
1:21.2	there have been some big ones and some bad ones.
1:27.2	In this one particular year, enough of them happened that America finally got off its
1:32.5	stuff and started doing something about it.
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