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Presidential Proclamation–100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 24, 2011.  

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On March 25, 1911, a fire spread through the cramped floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in lower Manhattan.  Flames spread quickly through the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors — overcrowded, littered with cloth scraps, and containing few buckets of water to douse the flames — giving the factory workers there little time to escape.  When the panicked workers tried to flee, they encountered locked doors and broken fire escapes,…

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