“On the 25th of March, 1911, a fire began at the premises of the Triangle Waist Company in New York City…”
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Intro
00:38 – Background
02:10 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
07:51 – Aftermath
MUSIC:
► “Glass Pond” by Public Memory
SOURCES:
► “Triangle: The Fire That Changed America” by David Von Drehle, published by Atlantic Monthly Press, August 2004. Link: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Triangle/sNncNOTpB20C.
► “How a tragedy transformed protections for American workers” by Erin Blakemore, published by National Geographic, March 2020. Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-transformed-protections-american-workers
► “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Topics in Chronicling America” by the Library of Congress. Link: https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire
► “Remembering The 1911 Triangle Factory Fire” published by Cornell University and the Kheel Center, 2018. Link: http://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/
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Some of you might remember that I told this story once before – years ago now I covered this disaster with the 11th video I ever made on this channel. Unfortunately, it got taken down not long after it was posted. Now I've taken the opportunity to remake it, explore the disaster more fully, correct some errors, and generally smarten the whole thing up.
If you remember the original video… can I just say thank you, sincerely, for sticking with me for so long!
Very well done! I hope this one is allowed to remain on Youtube.
So this is that holocaust the jewish people always complain about
Did anybody else learn about this in high school?
you need to do an episode about the Station Nightclub Fire in West Warwick Rhode Island 2003
This incident was also a huge moment in the history of American socialism
I remember learning about th Triangle Shirtwaist incident in school , its such a horrific mix of both lack of regulation at th time , and th selfish idiots in charge that let th place be unsafe while escaping first . Incidents like this are why I’m so absolutely terrified of fire , it gets out of control so quickly .
From watching so many of your videos, any time I hear: "The building was advertised as fireproof", all that means to me is it went up in flames faster than you can say: "This building is fireproof".
Thought I was imagining things. But understandable if this is a remake with even more details 🙂
I remember reading that witness’s account of people jumping, along with an excerpt from a historical fiction novel set in the fire, in an English textbook when I was in middle school and being extremely unsettled by it. What a horrific experience. It never ceases to anger me when I remember the owners were never properly held accountable for their actions
Come work at the Ash Building. You may turn into a pile of it.
safest early 1900s american workplace
Anybody would have an accident if they got a stairs like that tbh
a long-ass time ago, it was this exact topic that got me into disasters and true crime. come full circle
7:10 video of a woman falling into the life net. Doesn't look like it broke
Locking of doors which should provide an alternative exit is still a problem and a danger in our time now. One of my jobs in the early 2000s was nightly cleaning of a car dealership. Offices for managers, secretaries, and salespersons, were on the second floor, above the showroom. Except for the front entrance, the only other exit was through a door at the back of the storeroom for parts, containers of car oil and other fluids, and accessories. I noticed while cleaning in this area that managers had blocked this door, on the other side, with multi-ton compressors and piles of discarded car parts. This had been done (obviously) to prevent the theft of "parts and accessories" by employees.
Given the layout of this building, I understood very well that in a fire employees trying to exit from the second floor could be trapped. So I called the fire department, got myself through to the fire chief, and reported this. The next day this fire chief confronted the managers of this business. Ripped into them, actually, and within a very short time, these managers had used a forklift to remove those compressors, and all of that other junk.
For my good deed, and for all of my concern, I was fired.
It was obvious to me that all of the junk in place for blocking that exit had been there a long time. That enormous, super heavy pile was not something to be shifted out of the way just in time for an inspection. So why were OSHA inspectors never concerned about the blocking of the one door which could serve as the alternative to the front entrance, in a fire?In my opinion it could be optimistic to say that "everything is different now and safety of workers is always the first priority." In my view..not all that much has changed, since 1911.
We don't have to worry about this in the US anymore because our textile manufacturing has all been exported
I don't think any business owner was every held responsible for these disasters back then. There is a saying that "All fire regulations are written in blood"
I’m impressed with the footage in this video. Great video. Thanks for all the efforts u put into this.
Of course the cowards always run first who locked up ways to escape
The real horror of theses videos
The people who create the incident
Gets away with it
Frances woman in the Presidential chain of succession). Perkins was on one of the many investigating committees after the Triangle fire. She later became Secretary of Labor under President Franklin Roosevelt (making her the first female Cabinet member, as well as the first woman in the presidential chain of succession). Perkins later said that this fire piqued her interest in worker safety; this arguably made the Triangle Fire a large part of the genesis of FDR's "New Deal," with its emphasis on occupational safety.
Money and greed talks
I want to shoot that foreman
"Locked fire escape" is probably the free space on everyone's bingo card by now
If we had a dime for every time in these videos a fire exit was locked to "prevent theft" we'd have more money than the fines these companies had to pay for doing it :')