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🗓️ 25 February 2025
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In the 1940s, the people of Donora, Pennsylvania fall prey to a deadly epidemic that destroys their lungs. Doctors suspect it has something to do with the fog that is constantly blanketing their town… but why now? They need to find an answer fast – before the darkness claims more victims.
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0:11.0 | On the afternoon of Saturday, October 30, 1948, a teenage boy wearing an orange and black |
0:20.4 | uniform ran across his high school's football field. |
0:23.6 | He searched the sky for a pass from his quarterback, but a thick layer of fog had rolled in that made it impossible to see. |
0:29.6 | As the boy waved his arms, the ball bounced off his helmet and fell to the ground. |
0:34.6 | But before he could even jog back to his teammates, the boy heard |
0:38.9 | the school's announcer call his name over the loudspeakers. The announcer sounded urgent and told |
0:43.8 | the boy to report to the sidelines right now. And when he got there, his coach told him he had to |
0:48.9 | head home right away. His mother needed him. So the boy just took off his helmet and ran home |
0:53.9 | through the fog. When he burst through the boy just took off his helmet and ran home through the fog. |
0:55.0 | When he burst through the door, he saw his father lying on the couch with the doctor standing over him, |
1:01.0 | and his mother was standing by, weeping. The doctor told the boy that he was very sorry, but his father had just died. |
1:08.0 | The boy just stood there, stunned. His father had been fine that morning. He didn't |
1:13.5 | understand what could have happened. However, what this boy did not know was that his father was |
1:19.2 | not the first person in town to die that day, and he would not be the last, because this community |
1:25.2 | was in the middle of a medical disaster that would change the course of American history. |
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