Seconds from Disaster — Season 1, Episode 8: Inferno at Guadalajara

Episode synopsis

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

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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Crash of the Concorde (Concorde)
• E2Tunnel Inferno
• E3The Bomb in Oklahoma City
• E4Fire On the Star (Fire Onboard the Star)
• E5Derailment at Eschede (High Speed Train Wreck)
• E6Wreck of the Sunset Limited
• E7Meltdown in Chernobyl
• E9Fire on the Ski Slope
• E10Explosion in the North Sea
• E11Flood at Stava Dam
• E12Collision on the Runway
• E13Pentagon 9/11