I'd be interested in seeing more mini-docs on building/engineering disasters.

The General Slocum disaster. Largest death count in NYC until 9-11.

The Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion in 1944!

Collinwood school fire

You could do the Hurricane Rita Houston evacuation. ...It was a titanic 💩 show, and quite possibly the world's largest traffic jam. Yes, people died. (It was a month after Katrina, so I think the poor government response in New Orleans had a lot of us spooked.)

It is absolutely mind boggling that the owners were acquitted, continued the same practices that lead to the disaster, were caught twice more at least, but nobody ever reopened the case to actually punish them besides taking some "pocket change"

@@kumaahito3927 Unfortunately not especially surprising in that culture.

@@foo219 This is still going on in the garment industry today. Just in different countries.

@@kumaahito3927 It's actually run of the mill ordinary thing. Rich people have more political power, and political power can and will distort justice. Exactly as happened here. I'm sure the businessmen had political connections too, which probably distorted things even further. This is how human societies in general function. Do not expect justice. Political power is the only real arbiter of who gets punished and who gets to walk free from even the worst crimes.

@@Niskirin i know, I've put it badly. Still sad tho

That happened at the Iroquois Theater Fire in Chicago as well; students from Northwestern University managed to bridge Couch Place and rescued several people before the plank bridge gave way.

Its very horrific

@@PlainlyDifficult yeah. the station nightclub fire is another example that destroys me. learning about these incidents did make me a more vigilant person at least, because now i always check where all the exits near me are in a building i’m in.

or the amount of children working

@@johngaughan9399 exactly why the capture of our regulatory agencies by big business is so harmful. There could be bigger disasters headed our way.

@@ExperimentIV Do yourselves a favor and do not watch that video.

Never knew that was the reason!

I never knew that either!

Yeah every business with a certain amount of allowance for occupancy has to have a certain amount of usable exits during operation for situations like this. It really came into play when I did my Fire Code training in Fire Academy. It was important for us to know how many exits to expect, roughly, and their general placements. People would get mad if their building wasn't up to code like it's our fault somehow. All I could think was "if a fire ever broke out here, your ass would be grass and OSHA is gonna have the weed whacker" It's ridiculous how little some people care about basic fire safety.

Also why doors in businesses are required to open out among many other requirements.

That is great that the buildings were made they way, as they should be made safely and fireproof construction also often contains the fire so that it doesn't spread to the next building and the next. What is not ok is using that excuse to think "Oh these workers I exploit and abuse will be just fine locked in for the workday so that they don't steal a fabric scrap to patch up their child's school outfit or just as bad, take a break! The buildings fireproof so why should I worry about a fire?" Evil, evil and greedy...

The youtuber Brick Immortar has a great video on that disaster. I bet most people who sub to this channel will enjoy that content as well.

@@daminox Agreed!

The Rana Plaza collapse was one of the most disgraceful, disgusting things to befall workers in the modern age - what shocks but doesn't surprise me is that even high value goods involve the abuse of the poor in some unseen area of the world. Luxury teas in the UK still come from pickers that aren't given a bare minimum of PPE to protect from pesticides (for very little cost!). Foxconn is a good read if your not feeling miserable enough😬

Good for you I admire that

I agree mostly, but Im a broke student and I dont wear any fast fashion. It aint cheap at all. I got myself some Levis for 20-30$ a piece back in 2008 (!) and I still wear them. I got a few more last year, but thats it. If you wear clothes until they are no longer wearable, quality is 100x cheaper than Shein or other fast fashion sh*t.

I swear... When you first get started with any kind of powered equipment for fabric or textiles, like a sewing machine or automatic knitter, it's ASTOUNDING how much fuzzy, dusty, crap they seem to magically attract!!! You get your first sewing machine, be it a "normal" or a "surger" and you learn that intricate clean-out procedure from the manual... AND then a new one from the technician to help you clean, oil, and maintain on your own between visits... AND then EVERY single time you turn your head there's something else catching lint... some place else where something's dragging... and you're getting inventive with an air-compressor because you just can't afford keyboard cleaner anymore... I honestly don't know how they'd handle it in the sewing factories... I'd be out of my mind in a week! ;o)

Like being built of fatwood 😔

Oh wow. So did NYU buy the lot the land was on, knock down the old building, and then build their own in its place, or did they literally just renovate the old Shirtwaist factory building? It's always strange when a building has an old, dark history like that.

@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 It's still the same building!! Triangle owned the 8-10th floors, and after everything was fixed after the fire, NYU bought the 8th floor in 1916. NYU later bought the whole building

@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which doesn't provide any actual legal protection, but does mean there would probably be a lengthy court battle waged by preservationists if any owner tried to demolish it.

@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 The building was, indeed, fireproof. Unfortunately, everything else *in* the building was not. NYU has owned land around Washington Square Park since right after it was founded in the 1830s-indeed, some NYU Law students attending a Saturday study session next door rescued some of the fire victims by stretching some ladders across the gap between the roofs of the buildings.

What country is that in your pfp?

@@god.mp4 I think it might be France

Nah, interesting guess though! It's a Pan pride flag. 😅

@@Warbugzz don’t tell me you thought they were serious

@@fever4174 of course not! 🤣 but hey, if they're going to behave like knuckleheads in the comment section of a education-based KZfaq channel, let them. I'm not the one that looks ridiculous! (Well, perhaps I do look a bit ridiculous. The pan flag has always been fairly bright and gaudy, buuut it also draws the eye, so... 😅)

That is amazing, thank you for sharing. I never knew there were Forensic Architecture Techs, but now that I do, I think it would be a fascinating job.

The step measurement thing explains a few things in my life involving old buildings and haunted/curses stairs. And all of the facts are just cool in general.

This reminds me of a video someone made about some random step on a staircase up from a subway station in NYC, if I remember correctly. The step was not visually perceivable as different, but this person had measured the discrepancy compared to the others, and recorded a compilation of people tripping on that EXACT step! I don't have any source for this, just a vague memory of video I watched years ago.

(I recognize the importance) But imagine having to renovate stairwell cause 1 step is 1/8” too shallow lol

@@TheMechanic554 add a riser of 1/8 of an inch to the other stairs. May have to replace some carpet, if the stairwell had any, but definitely easier than complete reno.

Corporate greed never seems to change.

The avarice, greed and disregard for human life is a feature, not a bug, as they say.

If its corporate its always greedy. Corpos are devoid of humanity and would burn you and your family alive to make a buck. This is why we need more regulation with teeth and lengthy jail times.

I first learned about it when I saw a movie about it on TV when I was a kid.

Read up on the Imperial Food Products plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. Faulty sprinklers and exits chained shut led to twenty-five deaths eighty years after the triangle fire.

It is a strange feeling

@@PlainlyDifficult yeah and also this video is pretty interesting cause here in the u.s. I learned about this topic in english class of all places and some of the stories written about inside point of view by the survivors is incredible

Don't look at it that way. The more we know about the history the better. When I was in architecture school we had to learn about egress. They used the Club/Studio Fire disaster as an example of bad design and how another fire 50 years prior changed law to have a 1 hour fire wall between building units. The studio/club fire was the worst for me. People got trampled and it was one door because they locked the others. No sprinkler system and the fire killed alot of people in a small space. I will always remember it and ever since I can always point out 2 or more exits in a building. Even parking lots to big shopping centers have a minimum of 2 exits to the parking lot. When traffic is heavy at the lights and entrances I circle around behind the building where delivery trucks go and find the back up exits 18 wheelers take. It saves time and makes things quick during the holidays. This Christmas I was leaving walmart and no one and I mean no one was on the back exits. The 2 eentrance/exits at the front with lights had about 60 cars each trying to leave. I circled around and stopped for 3 seconds at the stop sign and I was on the main road. Beat all the traffic. Said that to say I see building entrances and exits difference. I look for the best and least travel way to exit due to panic and people rushing for main exits.

@@cmasterson "...walmart" Ignoring how you pay up front, then move through to the back, pass through the Employees-Only stock area and leave, Walmart products are made in overseas factories like this one.

With the failures of those who were in charge of many of these places leading to disaster, it stands to reason these videos will be the only way we learn how to not do it again. In a kind of dark irony, these vids save lives. But most importantly we get the weekly weather report in London U.K.

Its pretty gruesome!

They showed you pictures of dead bodies in 5th grade?

@@sparrow166 america

@@sparrow166 Life isn't all peaches and rainbows, but the fifth grade might be a little bit too soon to learn such a thing.

@@sparrow166 I don’t necessarily think the book was meant for 5th graders but I read it in 5th grade. I actually have that very book in my room to this day

Grenfell tower is a case in point. Although after that disaster, some bright spark wanted to build a 51 storey residential block of flats not far away from where that occured. But only wanted 1 set of staircases in order to maximise profits. Yeah that nearly got the go ahead if it wasn't for The Guardian (a UK newspaper) finding out and splashing it all over their front pages.

I first heard about this story from my grandfather, who was both the Deputy Chief of our local fire department, and also a self-taught tailor. Because I loved his stories, I knew right away when he described the building what was going to happen...

@@neuralmute this is literally all I know of your grandfather and I'm sure I would love his stories too!

Local boards of commissioners must hold development to safety of available resources. Really good to get to know your local govt, Sheriff, Fire Dept!

Yep, my town is getting a new industrial site, and in turn our department is getting a brand new 107’ Pierce Ascender.

That’s terrible. Why would anyone lock workers in like that !

It's still there?! Wow, I'd have thought it would've been demolished a long time ago.

@@RCAvhstape Nope it's still around. My dad did electrical work in the building a few years back. He mention about how eerie it is inside

Mike, I'm looking to get away from where I am currently, as I'm just not happy. Could you point me in the right direction to get a job in NYC? I love the city, especially being from the sticks of nowhere.

Oh my God! That’s my biggest fear! 😭

Also, the fire hoses on board were dry rotted and the life boats were either chained or bolted down - I don't remember which - effectively making them decorations.

Sadly true

That’s why we’ve got to hunt down people that get away with atrocities

Vigilante justice is acceptable when the avenues of normal justice fail entirely.

If the penalty for violating safety regulations is less than the cost of following the regulations, the company owners won't even pretend to care about workers' safety. 'Murica.

@@Geoff69420 Or just about any country now.

The Cleavland hill school fire took place in Buffalo, NY, the next city over from him

Thanks for the suggestion

@@PlainlyDifficult I second the Our Lady of the Angels fire as a great topic.

That was the Cocoanut Grove fire, where the doors opened inward instead of outward.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Good one. also totally preventable and the result of not enforcing the rules. Somehow the profit of private company's is more important than public safety, and not destroying the environment.

Thats why I don't use amazon!

Same here

Actually the correct procedure in a tornado is to find an interior space with no windows and ideally several walls between the outside and you on the lowest level possible. A basement is best. You do not go outside in a tornado if at all possible except to go into an underground storm shelter. There is too much flying debris that can spear and kill you. Failing an interior, move as far away from the exterior walls as possible. Also, get as low as possible so any flying debris hopefully will not hit you. I have on the edges of a few tornados and they more dangerous than many who have never been around them realize.

The only correction was the Amazon plant was a few hours away from me, in Edwardsville, Illinois. The Kentucky facility was a candle facility in Mayfield, Kentucky. Edwardsville was hit around 9pm I believe. The National Weather Service put all of southern Illinois under a severe thunderstorm and tornado watch around 5pm. The tornado warning I believe was issued around 10 minutes before it hit the facility. (I have friends that attend SIUE and family from there, this is what they had told me.) Severe thunderstorms are rare for this area in winter. And with the change in temperatures we had that day, plus the added danger of a nighttime storm - it was a recipe for disaster. We had known for at least 3 days prior that this storm would be horrific and it could produce horrifying storms. These businesses had time to prepare. They had time to run a safety drill and show people where the interior safe spaces were/time for workers to know if they felt safe working during a projected severe storm. (Also, Amazon workers said that they were not allowed phones on themselves, but some kept their phones on them in case of the worst. Amazon has claimed this is false, but I believe the workers.) I know several places in my hometown that closed early because they did not want their employees to drive through the the horrific winds. We somehow managed to miss the worst of it, but nearly everywhere around us got hit with tornado warnings or hail. I believe all of southern Illinois - where I am from and where Edwardsville is located - was put under a watch starting at 5pm. We had several days of forewarning for how bad the storm could be PLUS several hours under a tornado watch/severe storm watch. I see a lot of people in my area be complacent about tornadoes. "It hasn't happened here, so it can't happen here." And I think that is what the Amazon warehouse was thinking, so management put Christmas Rush profits over the safety of their workers. Since it "can't happen here." I apologize for length, but as someone who saw just how bad the storm was and knew for just how much prep we had for a severe storm - it angers me at how little Amazon cared. How it seemed like they had no sturdy storm shelter, despite Edwardsville being on the edge of tornado alley. (And those exterior walls did not look like they were made to withstand high winds.) Employees should not have been in that building when the storm hit. And they had several hours under a tornado watch to prepare for the worst, as they were projected to be hit by a horrible cell. but they did nothing and allowed the next shift to come in and work. I could understand why you wouldn't want to cover the December 10th storm, as it is still so soon and there are still so many unknowns. (On top of there being so many different tornadoes.) But I would highly suggest covering it at some point. It was such a horrible and rare winter thunderstorm. And so many people were either injured or killed because they put profit over lives.

@@washingtonradio the warehouse had a storm shelter but they were either told too late to get there in time (Amazon warehouses are massive and tornadoes travel at 100mph), or weren't told at all

If you think a fire in one building most people have never even heard about deserves a historical 10 you've never heard of real 10s like the Great Chicago fire or even worse the Iroquois Theater fire.

@@vertyisprobablydead Going to have to disagree with you. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is something that's taught in a lot of schools here in the U.S.

@@thaliabirrueta8456 no it's not. Here in the US.

I’d give it a 10 on the Legacy because of Frances Perkins. If you don’t know who she is and her connection to the tragic event, you need to look her up. The TSW fire and FP changed American History and US Labor Laws forever. Additionally, the movie Dirty Dancing pays homage to FP, the first woman in the Cabinet…Baby’s real name was Frances.

@@vertyisprobablydead while not discounting the human cost of the two fires you mentioned, they did not influence US labor standards the way Triangle did. given that most if not all US labor safety laws can be linked in one way or another to this one fire - given that it was the first to get the political momentum needed to start the conversation - it deserves a 10. OSHA exists today because of this fire

Thank you!

And the saddest thing is that , they will always win , profits over lives will always go on since well . It's good to be rich

Its definitely a possibly worth mentioning!

@@PlainlyDifficult I had never heard the arson angle before, but also... Yeah, that does seem like the kind of crap the people who ran that company would get up to

Very much so

Thank you for watching!

Glad you like them!

I know the feeling! Thank you for your comment

Thank you! You too!

I agree it's legacy continues to this day and greatly changed safety building laws in NYC and USA

Sadly true!

Asches to ashes!

The owners were a bunch of As(ch) holes.

I hope you found the video informative!

I unfortunately took the more grim approach and figured it was a choice of dying quickly by fall, or slowly by fire. That choice if all that seemed to be left seems that death by fall would be more pleasant.

@@D3M3NT3Dstrang3r That's what we were taught in school when we learned about this.

I remember that show! I kinda liked it and need to see if it's back on one of our free to air channels.

Great suggestion!

@@PlainlyDifficult absolutely, would be interested to see your take on that!

Thank you for watching!

At the time, I didn't think it was strange to be a kid running machinery, but now that I'm grown, I wonder why that was ever allowed - if you get injured at such a young age, you destroy the rest of your life -- before it even began. Weird they used to hire high school students, and weird our parents made us work like that.

Mmmm tasty what type of biscuits?

@@PlainlyDifficult speculoos biscuits mate ;) It's better with coffee but i like them with tea aswell

Glad you enjoyed it