Distillations Episode 108: Essential Elements - Fire
Series: Distillations - Essential Elements
From: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Length: 00:13:14
We continue our first series within Distillations. This episode is about fire. We look at the different ways people have tried to protect themselves from fire. First find out about flame retardants and the legislation that required their use in households around the country. And next, producer Anna Boiko-Weyrauch talks to a burn victim who needed the artificial skin, Integra, to help heal his badly charred body.
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Piece Description
We continue our first series within Distillations. This episode is about fire. We look at the different ways people have tried to protect themselves from fire. First find out about flame retardants and the legislation that required their use in households around the country. And next, producer Anna Boiko-Weyrauch talks to a burn victim who needed the artificial skin, Integra, to help heal his badly charred body.
Broadcast History
Podcast on November 12, 2011.
Timing and Cues
00:00 Opening Credits
00:32 Introduction
01:12 Flame Retardants
03:54 Third Degree Burn
12:36 Closing Credits
Additional Credits
Our theme music is composed by Dave Kaufman. Additional music from Music Alley. Additional music includes “Fire,” by Cyclops, “The Waysider,” by Neil Milton, “Santos Boots 3,” by Brian Kinsella, and “Sail to the Sun,” by Whose World?.
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