Everyone's life is touched at some time by disaster. But some disasters
loom so large they are international events. The stories of those who
live through such devastating events such as earthquakes, tsunamis,
hurricanes, fires, and floods are both heartbreaking and compelling.
Often they are inspiring and uplifting.
SOS: Stories of Survival tells the tales of young survivors of such
disasters -- teenage coal miners trapped deep below the surface of the
earth in Springhill, Nova Scotia; children who ran to escape the
poisonous exploding gases spewing from Mont Pelee on Martinique; teens
who rode the roofs of their homes in Pennsylvania's roaring Johnstown
Flood; and youngsters who survived, but still suffer from, the nuclear
accident in Chernobyl.
Archival photos document these astounding sagas.