Triangle Factory

  • (9)

    A professor was teaching and saw what was happening so he led his class to the roof of their building to help the people on the tenth floor
  • (1)

    The fire started inside of a scrap bin around 4:40 something
  • (2)

    The fire alarm was pulled at 4:45 pm
  • (3)

    the fire fighters arrived exactly two minutes later
  • (4)

    the people on the eight floor ran to the elevators and the people who could not reach the elevators ran for the exits and fell in front of the door causing a pile up and pushing
  • (6)

    ''The people who reached the 9th floor stair way found it locked. ''
  • (5)

    everybody was making life or death decisions and were pushing each other out of the way
  • (7)

    The people on the 9th floor had to make the decision to either jump or be burned by the fire
  • (8)

    They decided to jump out of the window and fall down to the ground
  • (10)

    A total of 146 died that day