This is poignant, don’t you agree?
Each year, the @FDNY sends a truck to the site of the #TriangleFire, to raise a ladder to the 6th floor. That's as high as it went in 1911. pic.twitter.com/wrbJi9YRAk
— NYC CLC (@CentralLaborNYC) March 24, 2017
Here’s the Wikipedia version of the tragedy. 146 garment workers died — 123 women, 23 men — due to locked exit and stairwell doors. Why were they locked? To keep the employees from taking unauthorized breaks or stealing the goods.
