On March 25‚ 1911 the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory went up in flames. The owners cowardly 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
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where they hit the concrete. The Bellevue morgue was overrun with bodies and a makeshift morgue was set up on the adjoining pier on the East River. Hundred’s of parents and family members came to identify their lost loved ones. 146 employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company were dead the night of March 25‚ 1911. The horror of their deaths led to numerous changes in occupational safety standards that currently ensure the safety of workers today. At the time of the fire the only safety measures available
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The Triangle Fire was a horrible event which caused deaths of workers who were working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. This factory was a sweatshop. A sweatshop was a place where people worked for long hours with low pay‚ and they worked in very poor conditions. People who worked here were there for the money that they needed. They were immigrants‚ young women‚ and children. They may have been doing this to support their family. Poor conditions and a few other things caused many deaths in this
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1911‚ one such event took place. The infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Fire occurred that day‚ and left one hundred and forty-six people dead in its wake. While many at the time thought the story would soon pass‚ and with it all the potential bad publicity‚ the story of the fire spread quickly‚ and outraged many people. As a result‚ the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire ended up changing many business and political practices of the time. In his book Triangle: The Fire that Changed America‚ David von Drehle
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Introduction The triangle fire disaster in 1911 was the opening for United States to consider fire safety measures in the country. After the incidence‚ New York City‚ where the fire started‚ tighten up their laws to not only ensure fire safety but also lead to various labour laws including strict child labour‚ worker’s right‚ and sanitation issues. Records suggest their employers did not properly compensate majority of workers at that time while they also allow individuals too young to work as
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Between the Island of Bermuda‚ and the Southern coast of Florida and Puerto Rico‚ in the Atlantic Ocean‚ lies what is know as The Bermuda Triangle‚ The Devil’s Triangle‚ and a host of other names. Vincent Gaddis in Argosy Magazine first named the Bermuda Triangle‚ a magazine devoted to science fiction‚ where he gave it the name‚ "The Deadly Bermuda". The earliest reported mysteries date back to the 15th century by Christopher Columbus concerning the Sargasso Sea. He reported seeing floating masses
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who were forced to work at rates that pushed them to the very edge of poverty‚ whereas they could not afford to quit their jobs or even come late to work. This led to the Triangle fire‚ an event that directed America in a new course‚ one in which the safety and well-being of Americans are protected by its rightful amount. “Triangle: The fire that changed America”‚ a monograph by David Von Drehle‚ encompasses the idea of the horrible working conditions for the unskilled immigrants‚ in which they had
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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
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On the morning of March 25‚ 1911‚ the 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
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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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