Video Footage

1. Video Footage The above link will direct you to video uploaded by a NY firefighter. Some of the video is a reenactment of the Triangle Factory Fire. Other parts are actual video footage of the tragic events on March 25, 1911. Ladder 117 FDNY

2. Floor Plan The plan of the factory 9th floor shows 75 foot long tables. 240 people worked in this space.  Chairs and work baskets blocked the aisles, making it necessary to climb over work tables to reach the exits.  By law the building should have had three stairs, but the Building Department permitted an exception at the request of the architect. The rear fire escape was suppose to lead to a courtyard but ended above a skylight on the ground floor. Only the Greene Street stair exited onto the roof. The stairway doors were supposed to remain unlocked and open outward by law "where practicable." (Section 80, State labor Law) The doors opened inward, when they opened at all, because the 2 foot 9 inch stairway was too narrow to accommodate the open doors