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Jun 2020
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Fire at The Beverly Hills Supper Club

Pushkin Industries
About this episode

Flames are spreading through a Cincinnati hotel. The staff know it, the fire department is coming, and the people in the packed cabaret bar have been told to evacuate… and yet they hesitate to leave. Why don’t we react to some warnings until it’s too late?

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