"On the 31st of December, 1986, patrons gambling in the casino of the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico noticed a light haze of smoke in the air..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:45 Background
03:21 The Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire
08:03 The Investigation

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
► "Underworld" by Myuu

SOURCES:
► “Three in Teamsters Union Charged in Hotel Fire” published by the LA Times, February 1988. Link: https://www.latimes.com/archives/lax...
► “Dupont Plaza Fire Survivors Still Trying to Come to Terms with Tragedy” by Joan Mower, published by the LA Times, March 1987. Link: https://www.latimes.com/archives/lax...
► “An Engineering analysis of the early stages of fire development – The Fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel and Casino” by Harold E Nelson, published by the NIST, May 1987. Available via: https://www.nist.gov/publications/eng...
► “Three sentenced in San Juan Hotel Fire That Killed 97” published by The Washington Post, June 1987. Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...
► “Governor Praises heros of Dupont Plaza fire” by Irene Garzon Fernandez, published by UPI, January 1987. Link: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/01/...
► “Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire: San Juan, Puerto Rico – December 31, 1986” by Thomas J Klem, published by the National Fire Protection Association. Available via: https://archive.org/stream/dupontplaz...

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