Fires Episodes

This week, we reach climax, Heather is probably banging, Brianne is willing to lecture anyone at all, Melanie plays a reverse Uno card, we're tired of groaning and creaking, Melanie is gonna get her wets whisked, and we are sexy vampires. Content warnings: Structural collapse with fatalities, death/injury of teenagers, coma, serious injuries. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Aggie_Bonfire_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggie_Bonfire https://web.archive.org/web/20070826164127/htt...

SHOW NOTES This week, we break some news too terrible even for a bat dress, two yummy sandwiches go head to head, Melanie adds to the Quicksand Irrational Fears Hall of Fame and gets aggressive about pancakes. Content warnings: second trimester loss, grief, funeral planning, death by burning, alcoholism, animal experimentation. Links: 06 Jul 1951, 12 08 Jun 1805, 3 13 Jan 1819, 2 15 Feb 1828, 1 20 Apr 1822, 2 31 Oct 2019, T6 A fire within Burn, Baby, Burn: Understanding the Wick Effect Death of ...

This week, Ava has concerns about Black Friday, we revisit Momo and raise theories on Jerry's whereabouts, Brianne's villain origin story is finally revealed, fan favorite funeral potatoes appear on the bracket, a man whose name means fox stands up to the mafia, a sexy move with a lightbulb goes terribly wrong, we get mad at hospitals and float some alternatives to blood donation, a young man gets Final Destination-ed, Melanie loves mushy bananas in her mouth, and Brianne has on-air beef with he...

This week, Melanie does a cemetery crawl, Brianne gets inspired by pettiness beyond the grave, alligator feet present a setback for the anti-smoking lobby, green beans ruin the day, Melanie victim blames and slut shames sheep, and lightkeepers are all haunted. Content warnings: cemeteries/graves/decomposition, drugs, Hurricane Katrina deaths, drowning, boat capsizing, structural fire, burn injuries, adult jokes, depression/psych meds. Links: 13 Jan 1886, 4 16 Tales that Make these Historic Light...

This week, Melanie is WRONG, a bet is made, the Wendy's alligator goes out to pasture, TAG is an evil puppeteer, miners are poetic, history loves insane asylums, gold rushes, and white men, Brianne has hot takes on lobotomies, Robert Lawson ain't shit, and Melanie is doing Count Dante. Content warnings: fictional addiction, alcoholism, housefire, deaths of children, and suicidal ideation, old-timey ableist language, sexism, domestic violence, murder to escape domestic violence, masturbation, men...

This week, we enter Jeremy Bearimy time, Bigfoot faces off against sentient pants, Melanie gets high-brow on us and continues with her favorite chaotic men theme, ballerinas catch fire, firefighters eff around and find out, a man hacks his way through a crowd, 807 Walnut Street is hit by disaster after grandiose disaster, and Melanie rolls out the exclusive new $20 Patreon level. SHOW NOTES Content warnings: extensive animal cruelty, slavery/dehumanization, animal attacks, amputation, racism/min...

SHOW NOTES Content warning: this episode discusses the large-scale death of children in moderate detail. BACK IN THE DAY: EPISODE 9 | OUR LADY OF THE ANGEL'S SCHOOL FIRE 1958 Chicago Fire Dept. - Our Lady Of The Angels School Fire 1958 Chicago Tribune 04 Dec 1958 Hunt Ransom Hoax Sadist in Pupil Deaths FLASHOVER AND BACKDRAFT: A Primer Our Lady of the Angels blaze. Chicago, 1958. Documents #2. Our Lady of the Angels (OLA) School Fire, December 1, 1958 Our Lady of the Angels School fire Our Lady ...

A Town with a Hot Problem Decides Not to Move Mountains but to Move Itself Centralia Loses Another Resident, Home Abandoned Centralia, Pennsylvania Centralia, Pennsylvania’s least-populated town, has been sitting on top of a burning mine fire for 60 years Centralia’s ‘Graffiti Highway’ is finally getting erased How the Mine Fire Nearly Killed Todd Domboski I Live In Centralia, PA: It's America's Creepiest Ghost Town Remaining handful of residents can stay in Centralia for the rest of their lives...