smoke in the far distance, contrasts significantly to the utter chaos, fear, and confusion displayed…
“I, with a number of other girls, was in the dressing room on the eighth floor of the Asch Building, in Washington Place, at 4.40 o’clock on the afternoon of Saturday, March 25, when I heard somebody cry ‘Fire!’” Unlike those on the ninth and tenth floors (the other two floors that our factory, the Triangle Waist Company, occupied), I did not climb out of exterior windows in desperation; I was kindly shown to a window in a crash door that I could fit through in order to climb downstairs. Instead of passing through the flames as many of my coworkers had to endure, I had the unique opportunity to run from the flames and to outrun the flames. Whereas many of my coworkers were jumping down from eighty and ninety feet in desperate need of a miracle,…
After paramedics rushed three adults and two children to the hospital, what remained was a scorched home. Firefighters arrived at the scene at 10:20 a.m. to what was a two-story home engulfed in flames, but luckily, all occupants exited the home. One adult, however, was forced to leap from the second-story window.…
How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I…
Though he scanned the area around him for his father, he saw only the brutish red men engaged in combat with his friends and neighbors, devastating the town in their fiery rampage. He rushed in the direction of his home again, panting and heaving, unable to catch his breath before he would be attacked once more. His arms grew heavy under the weight of his sword and his mail began to burn his chest even through his shirt. But with as much speed as he could muster, he ran toward his father's fields, ablaze with a pallete of red and yellow, smoke rolling out of it like fog on the…
Everyone at the house was inside and if they had to go outside they would wear masks. The eruption lasted for many more hours after that. My grandma didn’t know what to do when this was happening. She was watching the news later that night and saw that 57 people died. They had to clean ash for the next several days after the eruption.…
1. From your window, you can see a city block that's on fire. You watch city firefighters rescue people and battle the flames to save the buildings.…
Not knowing where to go. But feeling the building rumble and shake in my fear of claustrophobia. I remember hearing “GET DOWN! RUN!” Making a quick mover I jumped forward and make a break for the fire exit, it was crowded with men and women crying in pain, I joined them. The only thing I could think about is getting out of this place and Michael. I kept on stumbling down the steps holding on to people on my way down. Feeling a terrible pain in my right thigh, I peered down and saw a big gash of blood and a clear shard. I guess I couldn’t feel it because of all the adrenaline. I didn’t have time for this, only for Michael and escaping. From above a sound of falling concrete and metal bending brought an increase of screams. Maybe that woman from earlier was caught up there, so much for being important. I finally found a clearing of light from the exit. Flooding people out of the exit seemed like a liquid rushing out of a beer bottle. Finally, I made it outside but my matters have only gotten worse, the building was collapsing and I’m under everything. A lady grabbed me from the back and pulled me hard, making me drop down. Dodging a cinderblock, thanking her I ran the opposite way of the building and looking for the closest cover. Glancing back I saw people getting crushed from the construction above. There was no time to think, I had to go. Finding a distant building I took cover with the rest of the citizens praying for their life. “What’s happening?” I hollered. An old man next to me said “an attack.” My eyes widened as I watched the building fully collapse upon hundreds and hundreds of innocent people. “Who would’ve done this?” I asked terrified. The man ignored me as he watched the people were panicking. He might be panicking, but not showing his emotion. I calmed down my breathing and took a drink from a kind man giving out bottles from the café, also bandaging my wound keeping…
The crack of gunfire in the defining darkness drew him from his sleep. He silently awakened his raw-boned family. Sitting up and listening to the pandemonium which lay outside of the windowless skyscraper. The fire danced around creating demonic shadows upon the walls and across their gaunt faces. The man held his wife’s only hand as they rolled back to their sleep. The lemon soured light beamed throughout the city resting like a gargantuan beast, overpowering the horizon. The Dilapidated buildings, the burning city, a destroyed world. Once again he was first to rise.…
Children were crying all around, and I was definitely one of them. It’s hard to know that when I was just two years old, this had happened and I had not been able to comprehend half of what was going on. Now, being 17 years old, I am able to comprehend what exactly happened on that terrifying day, and am able to know why it happened.…
Later that night, the house began to die as the fire started to grow. The house…
There was so much fire that all the smoke from the fire began to…
Consequently another valiant action took place. A fiery orange, red, yellow, set a blazing fire to the deep blue sky. A church set ablaze a smoke bubbled over the church and…
One-by-one, the Nazis picked people off and took them away. Some to be burned, some to be given a job, some to be brought to a different camp.…
Out of the blue, the air-raid sirens began to chime and the high-pitched sound impaled into our ears making everyone frightened. My heart thrashed at a rapid pace and my daughter started bellowing as if she knew that the day was going to show its darkest side. Something just didn’t seem right; the wind began to rock the grass whilst the leaves unhooked themselves from the trees. The nearest shelter was Balham Tube Station so we quickly…