Provides a detailed account of the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers in 1911, and examines the impact of this event on the nation's working conditions and labor laws.
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On May 11 1985, fifty-six people died in a devastating fire at Bradford City's old Valley Parade football ground. It was truly horrific, a startling story - and wholly avoidable - but nobody was ever held to account and its lessons were not learned. Four years later, the disaste…
An African-American coachman employed by the town's physician saves the physician's son from a house fire, but is badly burned and terribly disfigured as a result. The physician vows to care for him, but the rest of the town ostracizes him for it.
East-end Montreal in the mid-1920s. A popular restaurant is razed by an arsonist. Seventy-five people perish in the inferno. While strolling with his wheelchair-ridden father, a man furtively salvages a charred icon from the ruins. He is Remouald Tremblay, a self-effacing bank c…