The oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, who was born in Italy and lived in the United States for six years at the time of her death, notes Cornell University. The two youngest victims, ...

Fire, an ancient technology fundamental to human evolution and culture, serves as both a tool and a natural force. It is a ...

Americans tend to be fascinated by what’s new and to be indifferent to the past, except when they can use “tradition” to reinforce current prejudices and power arrangements. This has had an ...

The Triangle Fire Memorial has been years in the making. The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition held an international competition to design a memorial in 2013. Out of the nearly 180 submissions sent ...

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top three floors of what is now known as the Brown Building, located at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street in the Lower East Side. At the time, ...

To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime. He wanted to do something about it. By Maria Cramer Responses to an essay about Nazi objects from ...

108 years ago, 146 workers were killed — some as young as 13 — in a horrific factory fire that help change American economic history. The dead included my Great Aunt Fannie. Fire hoses spray water on ...

In a bushfire or campfire, it is the glowing soot that we experience as flames. Flames actually extend well above where we ...

March 25, 1911 started off like any other Saturday at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. It was the final day of the six-day standard work week in the New York City sweatshops where mentally exhausting ...

In the past two years, about half a dozen chemical disasters have ripped apart Texas neighborhoods, sent dozens of people to the hospital and killed unsuspecting bystanders as well as workers. Texas ...

To get their mind wrapped around negligence, Curt Varone points firefighters and officers in the direction of something with which they already are familiar: the fire triangle and the fire tetrahedron ...

Last night's Fire in the Triangle battle featured two secret ingredients that really allowed the chefs to get creative – the night saw fish and ice cream combos, fish glass and honey mustard caramel.