Triangle: Remembering the Fire - Apple TV

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Significance, Causes | HISTORY

On March 25, 1911, a fire tore through the upper floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. Within minutes, flames and smoke trapped workers on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors. Exit doors had been locked. Fire ladders reached only partway up the building. One hundred forty-six people—most of them young immigrant women—died in what remains one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history. Historical records confirm that child labor was common in early 20th-century ga