Asch building after the triangle shirtwaist factory fire 750x1084

Triangle Factory Fire

By endresb

  • March 25, 1911, 4:45 p.m

    The workers were waiting for the bell to ring to go home, so most of them were smoking

  • March 25, 1911, 4:46

    the narrator was climbing on the tracks of the elevators bodies of girl came falling past him

  • March 25, 1911 5:15

    is 35 minutes after the flames burst from beneath a cutting table fire fighters had brought the the blaze under control

  • March 25, 1911, 5:30

    the fire was gone and out of 500 workers 146 died which meant 354 people survived

  • March 25, 1911, 4:50

    the stair well didn't have a light bulb so everyone who went down the stairs died that night

  • March 25, 1911, 4:55

    everyone who was pushing ageist the door was also about to die because the door opened inward so there was no room to open the door the way it did (this is why doors open outward today)

  • March 25, 1912

    the triangle factory was made into a museum