Episode 16: The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2016

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

At first, people who wandered over from Washington Square Park thought someone was throwing sack of shirtwaists out of the ninth floor windows of the Asch Building. But it quickly became apparent to the watching New Yorkers that these weren't bags of the Triangle Factory's finished products -- they were women. These young women had no other option, caught between the raging inferno blowing through the factory on March 25, 1911, and the ninth-story drop in front of them.

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0:53.1	I have been working a very stressful day job for quite a while,
0:58.1	and I was trying to get another job before I left it, but yesterday I finally just had had enough,
1:05.2	and I quit and I walked out. I don't have another job lined up just yet. I don't have anything in my savings really,
1:13.6	except for maybe like 50 bucks. So any help that you might want to throw my way, I would very
1:19.3	much appreciate it. I'm hoping to get a new job shortly, but until then I'm a little
1:24.0	stressed for cash. And with all of that in mind, I'd like to thank you very much again for listening,
1:31.9	and welcome to disaster area.
1:39.6	Episode 16, the Triangle Shirt Wist Factory Fire, March 25th, 1911, 146 deceased, 71 injured.
1:53.8	I learned a new sound that day, a sound more horrible than description can picture,
2:00.3	the thud of a speeding living body on a stone sidewalk.
2:04.5	Reporter William Gunn Shepard, a witness to the triangle fire.
2:10.1	There is a YouTube video that went viral a few years ago, and I love this video.
2:15.4	I love going back to it and looking at it and just kind of
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