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4:40
the workers are getting ready to leave when someone decides to smoke. -
4:42
the fire starts when someone flicks a hot ash into the scrap pile while smoking. -
4:43
the fire starts to come up the scrap pile under the table so the cutters through buckets of water on the fire but it only gets worse. -
4:44
fabric caught on fire and it started to spread more, so the foreman ran for the hose on the stairwell wall but it was not connected to the standpipe then the fire started to get out of control -
4:45
someone pulled the eighth floor fire alarm. -
4:47
the horse drawn vehicles of engine company 72 arrived from a firehouse six blocks away. -
4:50
people started to go one the elevators even though was it was dangerous because the heat of the fire melt the chains of the elevators.