The Triangle Fire: The Locked Door

<p>On a Saturday afternoon in nineteen eleven, a fire tore through a New York garment factory packed with young immigrant women. The fire escape buckled. The ladders were too short. And the stairwell door was locked — deliberately, to stop the girls stealing cloth. A hundred and forty-six people died. The youngest were fourteen.</p><p>August Mercer tells how their deaths were written into the safety laws that protect us today. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p><p><em>#history #truehistory #truestories</em></p>