Triangle Factory Fire Research Paper
Factory Fire
Ashley
New York - On Saturday March 25th it had been an excruciating week for both men and women machine workers at the Triangle factory in lower Manhattan. The workers were making plans for the night and looking forward to their one day off, when suddenly flames combust from a waste basket underneath one of the workers tables. Workers hurried to get buckets of water to extinguish the fire but it had been too late. The fire had outburst consuming the air and expanded viciously to other waste bins and files. The blazing inferno cultivated and prolonged so rapidly after just half an hour the viscous fire had disintegrated the entire 9th, 10th and 11th floor . Later investigators found over a 140 corpses .
Triangle Factory Fire
This tragic event struck everyone by surprise, but the biggest shock was based upon how such an event occurred. After drastic studies investigators have not yet determined the source of the fire. But earlier I had spoken with an anonymous source that had said the cause of this entire tragedy may have been from a harmless cigarette being thrown in a scrap bin …show more content…
Majority of the workers were not only “immigrants” but they were “women” as well. These young women came to the U.S to better their lives and give themselves a better chance of success, but never were they to expect what occurred next. Instead of them receiving a better life as hoped for they received scrutiny, poor working conditions and hopeless poverty.Many of them are not speaking out about the working conditions in fear of losing their desperately needed jobs. The Triangle Factory was a non-union company but some of the women had already joined the international Ladies “ Garment Workers” Union. New York City has a lot of factories but with an increasing concern for safety and working conditions people started to speak up
Ashley
New York - On Saturday March 25th it had been an excruciating week for both men and women machine workers at the Triangle factory in lower Manhattan. The workers were making plans for the night and looking forward to their one day off, when suddenly flames combust from a waste basket underneath one of the workers tables. Workers hurried to get buckets of water to extinguish the fire but it had been too late. The fire had outburst consuming the air and expanded viciously to other waste bins and files. The blazing inferno cultivated and prolonged so rapidly after just half an hour the viscous fire had disintegrated the entire 9th, 10th and 11th floor . Later investigators found over a 140 corpses .
Triangle Factory Fire
This tragic event struck everyone by surprise, but the biggest shock was based upon how such an event occurred. After drastic studies investigators have not yet determined the source of the fire. But earlier I had spoken with an anonymous source that had said the cause of this entire tragedy may have been from a harmless cigarette being thrown in a scrap bin …show more content…
Majority of the workers were not only “immigrants” but they were “women” as well. These young women came to the U.S to better their lives and give themselves a better chance of success, but never were they to expect what occurred next. Instead of them receiving a better life as hoped for they received scrutiny, poor working conditions and hopeless poverty.Many of them are not speaking out about the working conditions in fear of losing their desperately needed jobs. The Triangle Factory was a non-union company but some of the women had already joined the international Ladies “ Garment Workers” Union. New York City has a lot of factories but with an increasing concern for safety and working conditions people started to speak up