The call to Fire Captain Brian Buchanan and his crew came at midnight. Northern California firefighters were urgently needed to help fight the wildfires that were devouring big swaths of Los Angeles.
On April 28, 1986, when a radioactive plume reached Sweden, the world discovered that there had been a huge accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power facility in Ukraine. The accident had occurred two days earlier, and the details were hidden by Soviet authorities.
