Episode Five – Paradise on Fire
On colonization, Indigenous knowledge, and how we learned to cook the planet.
Episode Four – Centralia
On a ghost town, a garbage dump, and Pennsylvania's forever fire.
Episode Three – Inferno at Whiting
And there’s a thing that happens when you get into the Calumet region—that’s the name for the area on the southern shore of Lake Michigan, stretching across northwest Indiana and up into south Chicago. Because it has a distinctive smell, an industrial odor.
Episode Two – Remember the Triangle
Fire!: An American Burning is a five-episode podcast series that delves into the stories of twentieth and twenty-first century industrial fires in American cities and their profound connection to contemporary climate crisis, produced by Belt Magazine and hosted by Ryan Schnurr. Today's episode delves into New York's deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911.
Episode One – Fire on the Cuyahoga
Fire!: An American Burning is a five-episode podcast series that delves into the stories of twentieth and twenty-first century industrial [...]
Returning Home in Deep Summer
A poem by Ava O'Malley
Carrie Furnace’s Blood, Sweat, and Fire
These hulking behemoths with their slag and hot metal are rarely described as beautiful, but yet I am drawn to them over and over again.
Fire in Peshtigo
The deadliest fire in U.S. history happened one hundred and fifty years ago near Peshtigo, Wisconsin. You’ve probably never heard of it.
Fire in Steubenville
"Each time I come back home / something else has burned."
Oral Histories of the 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire
The events of June 1969 have come to define both Cleveland and the river. Some Clevelanders have a different story.