# disaster
A high-rise apartment fire in New York City killed 17 people and injured dozens more on Sunday in one of the deadliest building blazes in the city's history.
The city's list of deadliest fires includes the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Two commercial airline flights crashed in the tower, causing fires and collapses in two buildings, killing about 2,750 people.
Prior to 9/11, the deadliest fire in the city's history occurred on the General Slocum cruise ship on the East River in 1904, killing 1,021 passengers. -- Brooklyn Theatre: Fire swept through the Brooklyn Theatre on December 5, 1876, killing at least 278 people near the end of a performance of "Two Orphans." Media reports said a gas lamp set some of the scenery ablaze and many of the victims were trampled as they tried to leave the building, which had no fire exits.
-- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory: On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Manhattan factory killed 146 workers, improving workplace safety and spurring the organized labor movement. There's only one fire escape in the building. Some doors were locked as managers tried to prevent thefts, according to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
-- Happy Land: On March 25, 1990, an arsonist set fire to illegally operated social clubs in the Bronx, killing 87 people, most of them immigrants. The arbonist, Cuban refugee Julio Gonzalez, was thrown out of the club after arguing with his former live-in girlfriend, but returned with petrol, set fire to and knocked down the metal front door.