Construction Videos: Fire and Buildings

51 mins. This program explains how investigators combine cutting-edge technology and creative reasoning to figure out why fires happen. Archival footage and interviews with fire-fighters and survivors re-create the events surrounding four headline-making catastrophes from around the world: the 1981 Stardust disco fire in Dublin, the 1987 King's Cross Station fire in London, the 1991 One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, and a 1996 fire in a commercial/residential building in Kowloon