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In late October 1948, a seemingly average fog descended on the town of Donora. Unbeknown to the borough’s 14,000 residents at the time, the town was enveloped in a deadly
Seventy-five years ago this October, residents in the Mon River mill town of Donora noticed something wrong with the air, something different from the typical steel-industry smog that characterized the region at the time. The nearby U.S. Steel Donora Zinc Works had released two dangerous gases, hydrogen fluoride and sulfur