Triangle Factory Fire Comp Quiz#2

What happened at the 9th floor stairway door?

• The doors were unlocked and everyone made it down safely

• The doors were locked (to discourage latecomers and keep out union organizers). There were no survivors.

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Some people decided to jump out of the 9th floor windows. Why might they have done that?

• If they jumped, at least there would be an identifiable body.

• There was a good chance of surviving by jumping down 95 feet onto concrete.

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Why couldn't the firefighters shoot water into the windows where people were standing?

• "Plenty of water got through the windows, but not hose with people standing in them."

• "A burst of water under high pressure would have hurled them backward, into the flames."

• "A modern high-pressure pumper can send water as high as one thousand feet."

• "Yet nothing they did could save those at the windows."

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Firefighters held "life nets" for people who were jumping. Those didn't work. A person falling from the 9th floor would has a force equivalent to how many pounds?

• 11 Thousand Pounds of Force

• 100 Pounds of Force

• 2 Million Pounds of Force

• 650 Pounds of Force

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William G. Shepherd, a reporter for United Press described the "shower of bodies" with the sound of "Thud -- dead, thud -- dead, thud -- dead, thud -- dead." How many of these did he witness?

• 146

• 26

• 62

• 2,500

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Some people tried the fire escape. Why didn't that work?

• There was no fire escape

• The fire escape was covered in oil and was too slippery

• The bolts that secured the fire escape to the building weren't able to hold the weight of the people on it.

• The metal had become too hot to touch

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Where did most people on the 10th floor go?

• To the stairs

• To the elevators

• To the fire escape

• To the roof

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What happened on the roof?

• A professor and his class from a neighboring building went to their roof, found a ladder that was left by some painters, lowered the ladder down to the Asch building and helped them escape.

• They were able to find materials and quickly construct a ladder which was used to scale down the side of the building to safety.

• Just as the flames started to reach the roof a rescue helicopter landed and picked them up.

• There were no survivors.

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Chief Croker inspected the building after the fire. What did he discover?

• The Asch building had no damage, the walls and floors were in good shape... it was fireproof.

• The building was about to collapse due to the extensive damage

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500 employees showed up for work that day. How many died?

• There were no survivors

• 376

• 146

• 62

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