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01-07-2005, 03:43 AM
History repeats...another time, another place.
March 25, 1911
"It was the worst factory fire in the history of New York City. It occurred on 25 March 1911 in the Asch building at the northwest
corner of Washington and Greene streets, where the Triangle Shirtwaist Company occupied the top three of ten floors; five hundred women were employed there, mostly Jewish immigrants between the ages of thirteen and twenty-three. To keep the women at their sewing machines the proprietors had locked the doors leading to the exits. Panicked workers rushed to the stairs, the freight elevator, and the fire escape.
Most on the eighth and tenth floors escaped; dozens on the ninth floor died, unable to force open the locked door to the exit. The rear fire escape collapsed, killing many and eliminating an escape route for others still trapped. Some tried to slide down elevator cables
but lost their grip; many more, their dresses on fire, jumped to their death from open windows."
January 7, 2005
Fire kills 21 garment workers in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed and
dozens injured in a fire at a garment factory on Friday near
Bangladesh's capital.
Firefighters struggled for hours to put out the blaze, the
cause of which was unknown, said a policeman from Dhaka's
Siddirganj suburb.
"Twenty-one charred bodies have been recovered from the
factory, where dozens of injured were still lying," the
policeman said.
Thick smoke from the four-storey Sun Knit Garment factory
still hung over the wide area, witnesses said.
Fire officials were investigating the cause of the fire,
which destroyed the building.
Bangladesh earns over $5 billion a year from garment
exports. The sector employs about two million workers, most of
them women. But lax safety standards and poor electrical wiring
cause several factory fires every year in Bangladesh, killing
dozens of people, police and firefighters say.
March 25, 1911
"It was the worst factory fire in the history of New York City. It occurred on 25 March 1911 in the Asch building at the northwest
corner of Washington and Greene streets, where the Triangle Shirtwaist Company occupied the top three of ten floors; five hundred women were employed there, mostly Jewish immigrants between the ages of thirteen and twenty-three. To keep the women at their sewing machines the proprietors had locked the doors leading to the exits. Panicked workers rushed to the stairs, the freight elevator, and the fire escape.
Most on the eighth and tenth floors escaped; dozens on the ninth floor died, unable to force open the locked door to the exit. The rear fire escape collapsed, killing many and eliminating an escape route for others still trapped. Some tried to slide down elevator cables
but lost their grip; many more, their dresses on fire, jumped to their death from open windows."
January 7, 2005
Fire kills 21 garment workers in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed and
dozens injured in a fire at a garment factory on Friday near
Bangladesh's capital.
Firefighters struggled for hours to put out the blaze, the
cause of which was unknown, said a policeman from Dhaka's
Siddirganj suburb.
"Twenty-one charred bodies have been recovered from the
factory, where dozens of injured were still lying," the
policeman said.
Thick smoke from the four-storey Sun Knit Garment factory
still hung over the wide area, witnesses said.
Fire officials were investigating the cause of the fire,
which destroyed the building.
Bangladesh earns over $5 billion a year from garment
exports. The sector employs about two million workers, most of
them women. But lax safety standards and poor electrical wiring
cause several factory fires every year in Bangladesh, killing
dozens of people, police and firefighters say.