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WGBH News Presents: Fire In The Valley

GBH News

On Sept. 13, 2018, at 4:04 p.m., an alarm sounded at a natural gas monitoring center in Columbus, Ohio. High-pressured natural gas had just been released into a low-pressure gas line in Mass...

Episodes

5 episodes

Part 4: Making the Valley Whole Again

The natural gas company has a plan to return service to the nearly 8,000 homes and businesses without heat and hot water, but it will take m...

40:58Sep 13, 2019

Part 3-The Sun Rises After A Disaster

Residents face the first day of life after what’s now known as the Merrimack Valley Disaster. Uncertain when they will be able to return to...

30:32Sep 11, 2019

Part 2: ‘I Had Never Gone Toward Explosions Before’

When WGBH reporters start making their way to the Merrimack Valley, all they know is that buildings and homes are blowing up and catching fi...

32:17Sep 9, 2019

Part 1: The First Minutes of a Disaster

Within moments of the first alarms, homes and businesses in Massachusetts’ Merrimack Valley are aflame. Hundreds of people call 9-1-1, as th...

21:14Sep 6, 2019

Coming Soon:WGBH News Presents: Fire In The Valley

On Sept. 13, 2018, at 4:04 p.m., an alarm sounded at a natural gas monitoring center in Columbus, Ohio. High-pressured natural gas had just...

01:04Aug 30, 2019