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When/where/how did the fire start
In New York City, a fire started due to a person leaving a cigarette in a trash bin causing it to spread through out the building on the 8th floor were hundreds of young women and men died, and most of of the young women were immigrants . -
How did it spreed
since the fire started in the trash bin, the fire easily traveled onto the cotton clothes, close by. Also the building didn't exactly have a fire sprinkler system but what a manager did to stop the fire was to use a horse but the horse didn't work, and the fire spreed-ed really fast. -
Escaping
many doors were locked during the fire. the main door collapsed not allowing them to go out the rest of the doors were too narrow for the girls to go in while the doors were a struggle one elevator was working but only allowing 12 people on per trip. -
Young women life decision
the girls who could escape in time and were left in the room they ran out of decision. most girls made the decision to jump out the window then getting burned by the fire others suffocated from the smoke. -
How long did it take for the fire to stop
this fire lasted 18 minutes, later on the total of death women in the building were 146 -
Firetrucks
when the firefighters come to turn off the fire. the only problem they had was the hose, the hose only reached to the 7th floor it was a floor short. the fire started in the 9th floor. -
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Triangle shirtwaist factory
how it started to the end of the triangle shirtwaist factory -
Massive funeral protest march
on April 5, 1911 more than 350,000 people protested this funeral for those who lost their lives during this tragic fire -
Why did they take max blanck and Isaac to court
for manslaughter, when they were in trail they were not found guilty for knowing that the doors were locked during the fire
