There wasn't time for many trips to the bottom and back up before the fire reached the elevator shafts as well. Others ran to the fire escape. Though about 20 reached the bottom successfully, about 25 others died when the fire escape collapsed. In total of the 500 employees, 146 were dead. One result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was that the New York governor appointed a commission to
According to the fire marshal, this mess caused the fire to grow very quickly that they some workers had no time to escape. Also, the doors were locked to prevent the workers from stealing and leaving early. In my opinion, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory lacked of safety and cleaning environment. This was hundreds years ago, that's why it lacked of firefighting equipment because back in the day, things were different. Thus, all factories lacked of safety conditions.
2011 Joplin Tornado Chris Ojugo America public University Disaster Management PHHE 606 Professor.. Bohl Shelh August 31, 2013 2011 Joplin Tornado ABSTACT Joplin, Missouri 2011 Tornado significance, rated F5, highest single tornado, since 1953, Killed 124,people, 9 people rescued, over 1,500 injured and destroyed over 8,000 properties. 24 minute warning time above average of 13 to 14 minute to touched dawn, average population during the day Monday to Friday 270,000,the day of incident Sunday average population of the city 49,000. ("Storm event survey," 2011) Introduction Tornado is a narrow violently rotating column of air that extend the base of a thunderstorm to the ground, among all atmospheric storm from rain, hurricane
Without running water, people didn’t bathe or wash their clothes. This was an ideal living nest for rats and fleas. Kris Hirschman author of Plagues quotes author James Cross Giblin “Because the cities had no running water; even the wealthy seldom washed their heavy clothing, or their own bodies. As a result, both rich and poor were prime targets for fleas and the diseases they carried” (Hirschman
“Shattered City” is one of the most significant and appealing piece of Canadian history. It is a narrative story of how a tragic incident took place at the height of First World War which became a living metaphor for the worldwide conflict and how Halifax arose from the ashes after severe destruction and devastation. This movie is directed to illustrate the fatal event that took place on early hours of December 6th, 1917 between the period of First World War (1914-1918) which killed more than 2,000 people, injured 9,000 more and completely destructed the northern part of the city of Halifax by flattening two square kilometers of northern Halifax. It is the retelling of an almost forgotten event in Canadian history. On December 6th,1917, the Mount Blanc, a French-owned freighter loaded with thousands of tons of TNT, collided with a Belgian relief ship and exploded in the Halifax harbor.
Rakel Webb Ashley Goedker English 101-03 Essay #3 Response to Argument Who Is At Fault For Drinking and Dying? LZ Granderson recently wrote an article about who is really at fault when excessive alcohol consumption leads to death. Thousands of people die every year due to alcohol related incidents, and in most cases, the finger is pointed at not the deceased, but their surroundings. A recent story tells of a thirty-six year old man who is at a bar with friends, gets excessively intoxicated, and falls four stories from a stairwell railing. The same scenario happened previously to two twenty-one year olds, at the very same bar.
They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built. Some tenements didn’t even have windows or fire escapes. As a result many immigrants were caught and killed in fires (OK). Some groups tried to change the living conditions for the better. Immigrants worked in sweatshops that were dangerous.
TWO BRONX FIREFIGHTERS JUMP TO DEATH In January 23, 2005, Bronx firefighters were called to an apartment fire that was caused by a faulty extension cord. The fire started on the 3rd floor but quickly moved onto the fourth floor. There were six firefighters that entered an apartment on the fourth floor. The quickly became disoriented from the intensity of the blaze. This apartment had been modified by the tenants.
A woman came to greet us and-although it seemed incredibly crowded as it was-showed us where we were to stay. As time passed by I learned that the air quality was very un-healthy, it has an extremely foul smell from all the waste people throw in the streets. The apartment was freezing in the winter and scorching hot in the summer. In the winter, it is impossible to keep warm but in the summer we resort to sleeping outside. I also found that it was impossible to get water in the winter because it was frozen and we had no
The British passenger liner sank in the Atlantic Ocean April 15, 1912 in the early hours of the morning. This disaster is considered to be one of the deadliest peacetime events, with more than 1,500 people dead (“RMS Titanic”). Among these passengers were some of the wealthiest people in the world as well as emigrants looking to start a life in North America. The launch ticket, which can be seen in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, right outside of Belfast, belonged to a man named David Moneypenny. David Moneypenny was a shipyard painter for Harland and Wolff, and he had also worked on the RMS Titanic (Titanic Launch Ticket).