Up the Ladder to the Roof

get to those building was to use removal ladders or a large net to haul people. The first people who moved to Meteora were an ascetic group of monks moved to the ancient pinnacles in 9th century A.D. They lived in the rock towers that are 1800ft high. The exact date of the ancient monasteries is unknown. In 1344, Athanasios Koinovitis brought a group of followers to Meteora. He founded the great Meteoron monastery on Broad Rock from 1356-1372. Living up in the mountain, monks were free from…

journalist for The Washington Post and is also the author of “Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.” In this ALA Notable Book of the Year, Von Drehle talks about the devastating fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 as well as the events leading up to it, how it led to many reforms and changes in government policies regarding not just the workplace, but of the standard of living in general. During the 20th century, a time when immigrants flocked to the US for in search of new opportunities,…

Between 1630 and 1928 hours 16 apparatuses responded including:11 engines, 3 ladders, 1 rescue, and 1 aerial scope, and a total of 73 firefighters. On scene were two incident commanders (IC#1 and (IC#2) in separate cars also responded to this fire. When firefighters first arrived to the scene they were immediately order to search…

protected from fires. Now that the public understands that fires can be a huge threat, people are hoping that some good might come out of this tragedy to help enforce better laws. On an ordinary day at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, you could find up to 260 workers crammed on one floor and the exit doors would be locked so that no one could leave; this is a recipe for disaster. Survivors say that the exit doors were locked on the day of the fire when they tried to escape the room. The crowds…

and Dimed, the arising response of outrage is germane. It all started when she wondered how the roughly four million women who were about to be booted into the labor force would make ends meet with their six or seven dollar an hour salary. This ended up sparking her project, spanning multiple months, where she put her life on hold and left everything behind to enter the field of service work. Travelling to various states working different minimum wage jobs, and seeing how she fares on the amount…

Nothing annoyed me more than the idle and incessant conversations Bessie and so many others were full of. Bessie must have gotten the message because she closed her big mouth and turned back to the garment she was working on. I looked up again when I heard giggling and laughing coming from the cloak room. A girl started singing a popular song, “Every Little Moment Has a Meaning of its Own”, in the cloak room. The girl, Rose, has such a lovely singing voice. It’s a shame she is stuck…

Until I helped clean up areas affected by Hurricane Harvey, I had never seen miles of power lines snapped in half and mountains of rubble that were once gasoline stations. In Victoria and Gregory, Texas, my church’s “Mormon Helping Hands” program volunteered to assist any families that could not help themselves. We tore down entire walls and cleared fallen trees so that homeowners could save money on reconstruction cost to rise from rock bottom. Grown men cried because they were grateful for our…

freedom after 5 years if you kill everyone on the list that the King gives you. Celaena stalks her victim and scales roofs, but Celaena has a two secrets, she has never killed anyone on the list. She gives them two options, you can either have her kill you or you leave in the night, never come back to your home, and never use your name again. Everyone has gone with the ladder. Also, Queen Elena has left her with a labyrinth of a maze that drives her to uncertainty about others. Celaena…

slab of PVC off the roof into a pile of refuse lying on the ground. I could not bare the West Virginian heat any longer. Tiny black spots danced on the corners of my eyes as I held on to the ladder for dear life fearfully making my way to solid ground. I lugged my sweat-saturated body over to my jug of water and Canon camera recorder. Throughout the week, I compiled photographs and video clips from my third mission trip. After snapping a few final photos, my team and I packed up and headed back…

days’ worth of emergency food, and they were forced to ration what they had to keep spirits up amid the growing hopelessness. Eventually, exploratory boreholes were drilled, and emergency officials were able to make contact with the trapped miners;…