A little over an hour after the planes had hit both towers, the first tower had collapsed, the fire fighters did everything they could to try to get people out and to help as fast as they could. By the time it collapsed they had already started making their way to the tower, because they were tired of standing around and not helping out the people of their city. Around 10:28 the second towered collapsed. After this the city turned into a ghost town, there was debris everywhere, and they surrounding area was covered in a thick white smoke. Once they started finding ways out the fire fighters eventually start making it back there fire house to start seeing who made it out and who did not, everyone had…
On March 25, 1911, 141 people were tragically killed in a completely preventable fire that consumed three floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Those killed were mainly young female immigrants, many of whom couldn’t speak English. Nothing as gruesome had been seen in New York since the 1890’s. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was a man-made disaster, that brought to light the horrible working conditions of the industrial era.…
The fire escape route was a shoddy piece of work given that it could only hold a handful of individuals at a go. When the fire emerged, many tried to use that fire escape route, but the stairs collapsed under the weight of the escapees. Many were left trapped on the top floors of the facility following the collapse. With no other tangible escape route available, the women started to jump from the ninth and tenth floors of the building to the firefighters’ rescue blankets. However, the speed and weights of the jumpers overwhelmed the blankets that got torn. All 61 women who jumped slammed the concrete floor below and died instantly.…
The building owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris- subcontracted much work to the individuals hired and pocketed a portion of the profits…
Sadie Nussbaum, an eighteen-year-old Jewish girl who had lived in the 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 and over crowding, and only had one exit door.…
It was a lovely afternoon on March 25 1911 at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in…
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Near closing time on Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top floors of the Asch Building in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Within minutes, the quiet spring afternoon into madness, a terrifying moment in time, disrupting forever the lives of young workers. By the time the fire was over, 146 of the 500 employees had died. The survivors were left to live and relive those agonizing moments. The victims and their families, the people passing by who witnessed the desperate leaps from ninth floor windows, and the City of New York would never be the same. The images of death were seared deeply in their mind's eyes.…
Published in 2004 by Gover Atlantic Inc, David Von Brehle wrote Triangle: The Fire That Changed America that recounted that fateful day at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 26, 1911. Von Brehle portrayed not only the horrors of the trapped workers in the factory but also included the poor state of worker's safety and low wages. Von Brehle's purpose of writing about the Triangle disaster is to inform readers that factory conditions in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century were very unsafe as employees worked for very little pay.…
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, the tragedy of the Triangle Waist Factory fire should be included in next year’s edition of textbooks because it sparked a revolution for labor unions that succeeded in the fight for better working conditions.…
Overall, my reaction to the essay was disturbed. I could picture the fear in those victims’ eyes and their terrible cries for help. I could see the unbearable senses of despair ripple through their hearts like an ocean wave. I could imagine the pain of those families who have to go day by day without the sight of their love ones ever again. It’s heartbreaking to even recall such tragedy knowing how many lives have been ripped away from the Earth in just a matter of seconds. Suzanne Berne’s descriptiveness throughout the essay really conveys how realistic and treacherous the events were. Her points were very valid therefore I agree, because just like her I feel that evidence doesn’t have to remain in order to imagine the events that…
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, and to change workers safety and fire laws.…
The amount of people who lost their lives that day, surprised me a whole lot. I had never really understood the evilness and amount of death on that day, and learning about it was almost frightening.…
This is an event that shook the nation, everyone is involved in some way shape or form. From the people who were there witnessing people being shot, dropping, and bleeding; or the people at home who love country music, all the singer apart of the music festival, and those watching some of the horrifying videos from that night. No one knows why a retired accountant would want to take the lives of so many innocent people having fun. It’s crazy to think that these people were having the time of their lives, and some people’s lives changed forever in a matter of seconds because someone was out of their…
In September 11th- A National Tragedy, James Peck writes about how the tragic event, September 11th has affected our world today. Peck states that tragedy is a word that has commonly been overused by Americans throughout news articles and magazines when a significant event happens. When referring to September 11th, the crashing of the twin towers, this is a tragic event.…