The Iroquois Fire: The "Fireproof" Theatre That Burned

<p>It was the grandest new theatre in Chicago, advertised as absolutely fireproof. Five weeks after it opened, packed with families at a holiday matinee, it became the deadliest single-building fire in American history — around six hundred dead in thirty minutes.</p><p>This episode walks through the cut corners behind the "fireproof" lie: the jammed fire curtain, the locked and inward-opening exits, the fireball over the crowd — and how that horror wrote the modern fire code you walk past every day.</p><p>New dark story every day. Follow Six Feet of History wherever you listen.</p><p>#History #DarkHistory #HistoryPodcast #TrueHistory #Disaster / #IroquoisTheatre #ChicagoHistory #FireSafety #1903 #SixFeetOfHistory</p><p>Iroquois Theatre fire, Chicago, 1903, deadliest building fire, fireproof, fire safety, panic bar, exit signs, fire code, dark history, history podcast, disaster history, true history, Eddie Foy, stampede, public safety, American history, Six Feet of History, theatre fire, reform</p>