The Triangle Factory Fire started on the eighth floor for making shirtwaists, were the factory fire started, they shouldn’t have a fabric company on the eighth floor in my opinion. There were always scraps on there tables and on the floor, because they were not allowed to waste fabric. Paper scraps hung from the rafters. They lock people in this factory because they didn’t want people to steal the fabric. We will find out in this paper why the Triangle Factory Fire was such a firetrap.

The many reasons why the Factory Fire was such a firetrap. For instance, one reason is because people brought items that where flammable on the eighth floor, in this supposedly fireproof building. There were only a few exits for instance stairs and a couple of elevators. There were 500 workers that day and 146 of them died, either by jumping off the building or burning to death. A lot of them were teenage girls working for way too many hours, for being teenagers. They had another exit but it only let one person go at a time. This was so nobody stole the fabric from the factory. The building was so overcrowded. Only a narrow aisle separated one row from another. …show more content…
Another reason the setting itself made it difficult for them to get out quickly and swiftly. Another reason is that the doors opened inward instead of outward so they could barely get out the door, to escape, because there were so many people. A lot of the doors where locked. There was a hose with no water, so that didn’t help them put it out. They needed a fire extinguisher for times like these. It was quitting time and people didn’t clean up after one another. The fire escape was not long enough it was too short for people to go down on, so that wasn’t helpful. People couldn’t communicate well with one another, because they speak different languages, also because they were from different places throughout the