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Triangle Shirtwaist fire anniversery
forgot to post this yesterday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
One hundred years ago, a carelessly discarded cigarette started a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in NYC. The owners had locked all the doors to discourage thefts. The only way out was via the freight elevator and an external fire escape.
The freight elevators made several trips carrying the mostly poor immigrant women out, but the elevator was still many trips short of emptying the floor of the workers when it jammed from the heat buckling the rails of the elevator shaft.
146 women were killed. Some were killed directly by the fire, others were killed when the external fire escape collapsed under the load of all the people on it, more were killed when they threw themselves out the windows trying to escape the fire.
Next time you go to work, check your fire escape route to ensure that the doors are unlocked, the way is clear, and you know how to get there when the heat and smoke is so bad you are crawling on the floor to breathe, and the smoke is so thick that you can't see the floor you are crawling over. Hopefully you will never need this, but the day you do, you will really really need it to save your life.
One hundred years ago, a carelessly discarded cigarette started a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in NYC. The owners had locked all the doors to discourage thefts. The only way out was via the freight elevator and an external fire escape.
The freight elevators made several trips carrying the mostly poor immigrant women out, but the elevator was still many trips short of emptying the floor of the workers when it jammed from the heat buckling the rails of the elevator shaft.
146 women were killed. Some were killed directly by the fire, others were killed when the external fire escape collapsed under the load of all the people on it, more were killed when they threw themselves out the windows trying to escape the fire.
Next time you go to work, check your fire escape route to ensure that the doors are unlocked, the way is clear, and you know how to get there when the heat and smoke is so bad you are crawling on the floor to breathe, and the smoke is so thick that you can't see the floor you are crawling over. Hopefully you will never need this, but the day you do, you will really really need it to save your life.
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Weather you mention the Triangle Shirt Waste fire or the Coconut Grove, Beverly Hills Super Club, MGM Grand, Hotel Vendome, Our Lady of the Angels School, Mann Gulch, South Canyon, the Worcester Cold Storage fire or any of the other large losses of life we have suffered in this country due to fire, the problem is that too many people out there just don't think it will ever happen to them.
*huggs*
Thanks for posting this.