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    Prof. Dr. JSI Prasad FIRE‚ PREVENTION AND PROTECTION: Fire Precautions: Fires in hotel and catering establishments are common and all too often can result in injury to the employee and in serious cases either injury or loss of life to employees and customers. Fire Prevention: In dealing with this subject it is necessary to realize that it falls into two separate categories : a. Fire Prevention b. Fire fighting One of the most important requirements for fire prevention is good housekeeping---housekeeping

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    The tragedy of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire sparked the uprising in the fight for better shape of the working environment when 145 of the innocent were killed. It was that it began in a small rag bin‚ a simple target for a fire in a building with locked fire escape routes‚ unoperational elevators‚ and no ventilation‚ that initiated the fight for worker safety. Although most hand-made garment businesses have been made irrelevant in the U.S. due to industrialization and mass production today

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    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - I agree watching video story is the Triangle Fire that happening was a death of long ago year people in the garment workers died an without in the fire. The Triangle Fire is a worker in the 20th century for people want including fight background of the American industry in New York City about a Government has a century ago most histories of the death in their victims had family and friend. It’s only women can go to workers for Triangle factory will accept can

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    You think we would learn from the first fire that burned down the city of Salisbury‚ right? The city of Salisbury had two fires that brought great devastation to the city of Salisbury. We learned how to handle the fires after most of the entire city was burned down and when we learned how dangerous fire can really be. There was a fire that burned down most of the city in 1860‚ but the real devastation happened 20 years later on Oct 18‚ 1886 when another fire burned a lot of the city. The city of

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    9th in 1871. Millions of Chicagoans left homeless and only because of one cause — Natural Causes. (History.com) The Great Chicago Fire started because of natural causes. There was a drought in Chicago when the fire occurred‚ and there were previous fires before that. Those fires also happened anonymously. There is better chance of a loose spark starting the fire by shooting out of a another wildfire than a crazy old woman trying to get her revenge on the government. The humidity was also a big

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    ran out of the building‚ telling no one there was a fire. The women who worked there became trapped‚ because the back entrance was locked‚ so many were forced to jump out windows or go down the faulty fire escape. That day will never be forgotten and made people realize how bad the conditions were as workers. As a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire‚ many social reforms were built to protect children‚ women‚ and to change workers safety and fire laws. The public was in awe and shocked at the loss

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    The Great Chicago Fire burned for two days straight. From October eighth to October tenth‚ 1871. There are so many questions people ask about the fire. Such as "What caused it to burn out of control?" People can ask about "The effects the fire had on the city and its residents." too. Plus‚ people ask "What happened in the aftermath of the fire?" Those question‚ will be answered in this article. The first question that will be covered is "What caused the fire to burn out of control?" There are

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    How far do you agree that the Reichstag fire handed Germany to Hitler? On the 27th February 1933‚ the Reichstag building was burned down. Hitler was able to take advantage of this. The Reichstag fire was very important it was a step in Hitler becoming fuhrer of Germany. The communists were his closest competition in the election‚ and he made it look like it was a communist plot‚ and was able to go and have the members of the communist party arrested and killed‚ of course all for the good of the

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    Triangle Waist Company had a fire breakout which killed 141 young girls and an about 5 of them men. This fire is believed to have started by cigarettes or matches that had been thrown in a pile of waste‚ and witnessed to have ended in being the greatest industrial disaster till that time. This company broke numerous amount of laws that were created to protect the workers‚ such as not being allowed to have doors locked during working hours and having correct dimensions of the fire escape‚ and because of

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    United States of America her entire life along with 148 of her fellow workers‚ was killed in the fire in the Triangle Shirt Factory(Nussbaum death certificate). Ever since‚ historians and advocates have asked the question‚ “Who should be held responsible for their deaths?” After looking at many sources it seems that the owners of the building‚ Blanck and Harris‚ were ultimately responsible for the fire. This is because they failed to keep the building properly inspected‚ had terrible working conditions

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