Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Tragedy Strikes
On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Factory. Fueled by hundreds of pounds of highly flammable cotton and tissue scraps, the blaze ripped through the building's top three floors; the workers, trapped inside by locked doors, were unable to escape. Matters were made worse by the inadequacy of the equipment of the firemen, whose ladders and hoses were unable to reach higher than the sixth floor.

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