But there was little any of them could do. In the span of 15 minutes on March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle shirtwaist factory killed 146 people, making it one of the deadliest disasters in New ...

The fire extinguisher class explains the classic fire triangle or tetrahedron, common-sense responses to fire scenarios, the use and capabilities of the different kinds of extinguishers, and hands-on ...

Amid commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire on March 25, descendants of the 146 victims and of those who survived the inferno are remembering tales of family ...

The workplace horror known as the Triangle Fire became a rallying moment in America’s labor movement. The revolution greatly bettered the workplace in terms of routines, compensation and safety.

The challenge when writing history is to break the glass that separates us from the past. To connect somehow with those who lived before us and turn them back into people — not flat abstractions ...

A memorial honoring the 146 people who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 became a reality on Wednesday, more than 100 years after the plight of garment workers trapped inside a ...

Here & Now's Scott Tong talks with Mary Anne Traschiatti, the president of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and the director of labor studies at Hofstra University, about a new memorial to ...