Fire Suite 1

Fires That Changed America

by J. J. Jonas

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"Tag. No. 54"
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
New York--March 25, 1911

In March of 1911, one hundred forty-six workers in the garment district of New York City--most of them young immigrant women--lost their lives. Employees had just begun preparing to leave the Triangle shirtwaist factory when a fire broke out and, within minutes, consumed the building's three upper floors. It was the worst workplace disaster in New York City prior to "9-11."

The Triangle fire was the crucial moment in a chain of events that ultimately forced fundamental reforms in the entire nation.

On the day of this tragedy, the bodies of young girls who jumped from the flames to their death were marked with tags, hastily scribbled in lead pencil by policemen, while the bodies still lay on the New York sidewalk pavement.

Tag. No. 54 was one such girl, who went to work on a Saturday in March on a day when it was almost spring . . .

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"That Monday"
Our Lady of the Angels School Fire
Chicago--December 1, 1958

On a cold winter Monday in December, 1958, one of the most tragic fires in American history took the lives of ninety-two students and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels School. The outcome of the fire caused sweeping changes in school fire codes and safety regulations nationwide. But for the innocent victims of Our Lady of the Angels on that Monday, it was too late.

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