Yesterday, March 25, 191 at 4:40 pm, a fire at the Triangle Waist Company 10 floor building in New York city broke out and killed 146 young workers who were mostly immigrants. The fire started when someone threw either a match or cigarette int0 the waste bucket. Someone smelled smoke and told the manager who then started to throw water onto the fire, but it was already too late. Everyone began to panic and run for the door, but the door was too small and could only fit one person through at a time so people began to jump out the windows. The 10th floor was notified about the fire but the 9th floor wasn't.…
In October of 1918 a very strong forest fire burned up a large portion of Northern Minnesota. At the time of the fire my Grandpa Arvid was around 5 years old. Although it’s called the Cloquet fire it was actually about 50 fires combined into a single event. The two major fires were the Cloquet-Duluth fire and the Moose Lake fire. Dry conditions, strong winds, and lumbering are 3 reasons why the fire was so out of control.…
In the early 1900’s, were there legitimate ways to prevent fires like we do today? Albert Marrin’s non-fiction story, “Flesh And Blood So Cheap” uses both explicit and implicit evidence and examples in his excerpt to convey his theme that The Triangle Fire that took place in 1911 was caused by many unsafe practices and standards, which led to 146 deaths in the large fire. Fortunately, this fire prompted people to want to work for reforms to improve safety standards which we still use to this day. The first kind of evidence Albert Marrin uses in his story to convey his theme is implicit evidence.…
During the summer of 2016, I fought wildland fire for the Weiser Ranger District of the Payette National Forest in Idaho. I worked on a type four heavy engine, E-421. As a firefighter, I was able to witness climate change and increasing fire activity first hand on an off forest assignment to Midas, Nevada. It was there where my module was the first to respond to the Hot Pot Fire. In a little under 36 hours, the Hot Pot Fire spread 123,000 acres.…
The circumstances as to how the fire raged out of control is understandable, but the lingering question, why not extinguish the fire before it spread. During the seventeenth centuries, London had no organized fire protection system. Indeed, basic firefighting methods of the day consisted largely of sheer manpower, the only tools for fighting the fire were buckets, hooks and hand held pumps as well as ladders. If fact, the method was not to extinguish but to contain and allow the fire to burn itself out, by demolishing nearby structures therefore creating fire breaks to slow the fire spread. In addition, Gunpowder could be used to blow up buildings and create fire…
Kaleabe Abera Mr. Perez US History March 7, 2017 On Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire erupted in a 10 story factory building. The top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company building, in New York city, caught fire killing 146 of the 500 workers. The dead consisted of mainly of young women. The doors for the fire escape were locked and the firefighters ladders couldn’t reach to top floors.…
Fire! Now you may be wondering, what do you mean “Fire!” Fire! As in the Triangle Factory Fire. All these dangers, all these unfortunate girls.…
(Document 2). This cartoon voiced the people looking for someone to blame and for those that weren’t already upset by this fire were now seeing that something needed to be done. In response the people started pushing for improved fire safe laws, and within the first six months, the Building department complied by changing the inspection; making the inspections more strict, they…
This fire could have been prevented if only the factory owners and the people who were supposed to make sure that everything was up to date did their job correctly. Fortuity…
At first, families didn’t take the fire seriously until it was too late. They were so frightened they were leaving behind friends and neighbors, some of them were even leaving families spreading apart from every direction taking turns And corners some people don’t even know where their going. The only reason the fire was not put out was because there was a drought, strong winds, alarm failure, an engine burst, the firefighters were sent to the wrong place,and the firefighters were hung over.…
As the stairs collapsed, more than 20 workers were killed. Another workers on the 9th floor escaped through the cargo elevator. The elevator moved up to 20 times, but after that, the elevator's rail was twisted because of the heat, and it became impossible to operate. Fire trucks arrived in a few minutes after receiving the fire report, but fire truck ladders and water hose was too short to reach top at that time. Eventually, many people trapped on the 9th and 10th floors and at least 84 workers who could not stand the flame…
Although the fire itself was an accident, there were obstacles that prevented frantic victims from evacuating the building. While the state couldn’t prove that these things were done on purpose, they were done with negligence that cost 146 people their lives. This accident opened people eyes to the importance of building codes and regulations. Before, people didn’t really care about those type of things, they didn’t take them serious and never imagined that something bad would happen to them. Now, companies are forced to follow the rules.…
The fire was finally called in from an off duty firefighter and police officer 30-90 mins after the fire already began when fire crews arrived they were startled because they were unfamiliar with the layout of this structure of warehouse inside the warehouse. Firefighters got world…
By the time the fire department arrived with the engine and hose cart, the fire had already spread to six houses and barns. The wind had begun to increase it’s velocity, carrying with it burning sparks and flaming debris through the air spreading the fire even faster. The wind blowed northeast toward the heart of the city. Firefighters continued to chase the burning flames trying effortlessly to put them out but they had no chance with the wind- driven blaze. The wind began to lift up the burning objects and fling them into the air over the heads of the firefighters.…
The Great Chicago Fire burned for 3 days, destroying over 200 acres and 17,000 homes, causing 200 million dollars in damage. This blaze resulted in 300 fatalities and left 90,000 homeless. Meanwhile the Peshtigo Fire was ablaze. This flash forest fire created a “tornado of fore” over 1000 feet high and 5 miles wide. As a result of these tragic fires, strict building and fire codes were enforced.…