Red Cross First Date: Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse

Marked Safe: A Disaster Podcast

This week, Melanie puts out feelers for cross-stitching listeners, puppy justice takes over Florida, we petition to bring back the name Constance, Melanie gets catfished by a fake Steve Miller Band, and a tea dance goes horrifically wrong.

Content warnings: structural collapse, graphic discussion of death and severe physical trauma, graphic discussion of traumatic rescue and recovery episodes, PTSD, repeated references to dismemberment, explicit death of a child 00:34:40-00:37:31.
45 KILLED AT HOTEL IN KANSAS CITY, MO., AS WALKWAYS FALL
46 killed in Hyatt collapse as tea dance turns to terror
BEFORE HOTEL DISASTER, WALKWAY SWAYED TO THE RHYTHM OF DANCERS
ENGINEERS ARE HELD AT FAULT IN '81 HOTEL DISASTER
Hyatt hotel hid collapse of a roof, paper says
Hyatt Regency Skywalk Collapse
Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
In an unexpected move denounced by Mayor Richard Berkley,...
KMBC 9 Chronicle: The Skywalk Tapes – The night the skywalks fell, forever changing Kansas City
One Of The Deadliest U.S. Accidental Structural Collapses Happened 40 Years Ago Today
Skywalk Memorial Foundation, Inc.
'Tea Dance' Hotel Disaster Toll Reaches 111
The Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster: A year later survivors still dance
The Kansas City Hyatt Disaster: 30 Years Later, a Reminder to Never Forget
THIRD HYATT WALK REMOVED DESPITE PROTEST FROM MAYOR
Three Decades On, A Memorial For The Victims Of The Hyatt Disaster
Tragedy in KC: The Hyatt Collapse of 1981
When this hotel skywalk collapsed, it was one of the deadliest structural failures in US history