Seconds From Disaster - Season 1 - Eps 8: Inferno at Guadalajara
April 1992, Guadalajara, Mexico. On the 19th, residents start complaining of a strong gasoline-like smell coming from the sewers. Three days later, on the 22nd, numerous gas explosions in the sewers over a time span of four hours destroy kilometers of housing estate and killing 206 people. But who, if anyone, is to blame? What caused the inferno in Guadalajara?
About Seconds From Disaster
Title: Seconds From Disaster
First Air Date: 2005-09-19
Last Air Date: 2018-02-22
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.2/10 (from 23 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 7
Total Episodes: 69
Network: National Geographic
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: DSP
Synopsis
Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.
Cast
Richard Vaughn
Narrator (voice)
