Wrath of God: Disasters In America

Fire Under The Big Top

TV-PG
S1 • E22    Mar 23, 2000    45m
During the summer of 1944, a fire erupted inside the canvas tent during a Ringling Brothers circus show in Hartford, Connecticut, killing 168 people and injuring 550. Unbeknownst to the crowd, the tent had been waterproofed with a highly flammable mixture of parafin wax and gasoline. The disaster would affect fire codes for the rest of the century.

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