{"id":174396,"date":"2026-03-25T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174396\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:30:10","slug":"nyc-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-kills-146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174396\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (WCSC) \u2014 A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City became one of America\u2019s worst industrial disasters, killing 146 people in less than half an hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Flames raced through the top floors of a Manhattan garment factory packed with young immigrant women, many just teenagers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Locked doors, a collapsing fire escape and an elevator that quickly failed all left workers with no way out. Some burned inside; others jumped from ninth-floor windows to escape the smoke and flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Public outrage was enormous, and the tragedy helped drive major changes in fire codes, building safety and labor laws that still protect workers today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCSC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WCSC) \u2014 A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City became one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33453,545,881,70984,75,9,56,63,65,64,5887,3646,70983,3556],"class_list":["post-174396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-america-250","tag-fire","tag-history","tag-labor-laws","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-on-this-day","tag-today-in-history","tag-triangle-shirtwaist-factory","tag-workers-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}