Triangle Factor Factory Fire Essay

In a New York Times article available only one day after the fire, one witness exclaimed, “I only saw one man show. All the rest were girls. They stood on the windowsills tearing their hair out and handfuls and then they jumped. One girl held back after all the rest and clung to the window casing until the flames from the window below crept up to her and set her clothing on fire. Then she jumped far over the net and was killed instantly, like all the rest"(Triangle 2). On what was meant to be a calm March 25, 1911 in New York City all went south when the worst industrial fire broke out killing 146 people. This factory was owned and operated by Isaac Harris and Max Blanck. Their factory took place on the top three floors. The background, the cause, and the result of this …show more content…
All of these factors took part in the worst fire of the Industrial Revolution. From the start of the Industrial Revolution, in 1877, these thirty-four years and countless fires the Triangle Factor Fire was so-called the worst fire in that time period. The Triangle Factor Fire started at 4:40 p.m. right after most of the business left for the day. If the fire were to start ten minutes earlier then many more lives would have been lost. Not to mention in the ten-story building, Isaac and Max’s business was on the top three floors making it hard for the people to get out. It was also hard for them to escape the building because there was a lack of fire safety and exits. These qualities of the building only keep going back to the inhumane working conditions of the building. This building was also not in good shape because it had four recent fires making it less suitable for a mammoth fire. One last bad thing about this building is that it billed its self as fire proof. The Triangle Factor was one of the worst fires in the Industrial Revolution and showed us the conditions of the