https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9 Made with a tragic mystery en-us 2018-12-06 18:01:04 UTC 2018-12-07 18:12:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/338598827/0abae24ffe39bfd6c4072724f1452de6/download.jpeg asmith1229 https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/311950664 We will never know for sure what started the Triangle Fire. Most likely, a cutter flicked a hot ash or tossed a live cigarette butt into a scrap bin. Whatever the cause, survivors said the first sign of trouble was smoke pouring from beneath a cutting table.]]> 2018-12-06 18:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/311950664 asmith1229 https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/311966930 Cutters flung buckets of water at the smoking spot, without effect. Flames shot up, igniting the line of hanging paper patterns. “They began to fall on the layers of thin goods underneath them,” recalled cutter Max Rothen. “Every time another piece dropped, light scraps of burning fabric began to fly around the room. They came down on the other tables and they fell on the machines. Then the line broke and the whole string of burning patterns fell down.” A foreman ran for the hose on the stairway wall. Nothing! No water came. The hose had not been connected to the standpipe. Seconds later, the fire leaped out of control. ]]> 2018-12-06 18:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/311966930 asmith1229 https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/311968019 2018-12-06 18:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/311968019 asmith1229 https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/311968550 Of the 500 Triangle employees who reported for work that day, 146 died. Of these, sixteen men were identified. The rest were women or bodies and body parts listed as “unidentified.” The Triangle Fire was New York’s worst workplace disaster up to that time. Only the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center took more (about 2,500) lives. ]]> 2018-12-06 18:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/311968550 asmith1229 https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/312349065 Cutters flung buckets of water at the smoking spot, without effect. Flames shot up, igniting the line of hanging paper patterns. “They began to fall on the layers of thin goods underneath them,” recalled cutter Max Rothen. “Every time another piece dropped, light scraps of burning fabric began to fly around the room. They came down on the other tables and they fell on the machines. Then the line broke and the whole string of burning patterns fell down.” A foreman ran for the hose on the stairway wall. Nothing! No water came. The hose had not been connected to the standpipe. Seconds later, the fire leaped out of control. ]]> 2018-12-07 18:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/312349065 asmith1229 https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/312350274 At exactly 4:45 p.m., someone pulled the eighth-floor fire alarm. In less than two minutes, the horse-drawn vehicles of Engine Company 72 arrived from a firehouse six blocks away.]]> 2018-12-07 18:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/312350274 asmith1229 https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/312351009 2018-12-07 18:11:38 UTC https://padlet.com/asmith1229/2f0aq85bvet9/wish/312351009