# disaster
A fire in a New York City apartment building killed 17 people and injured dozens more on Sunday, making it one of the deadliest building fires in the city's history.
Some of the city's deadliest fire lists include the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. About 2,750 people were killed when two commercial airline flights crashed into the twin towers, causing the buildings to catch fire and collapse.
Before 9/11, the deadliest fire in the city's history occurred aboard the General Slocum cruise ship on the East River in 1904, when 1,021 passengers were killed. Brooklyn Theater: On Dec. 5, 1876, near The end of a performance of "The Two Orphans," fire swept through a Brooklyn theater, killing at least 278 people. Media reports said a gas lamp set some of the scenery ablaze and that many of the victims were trampled as they tried to flee the building, which had no fire exits.
- TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY: The March 25, 1911, fire at the Manhattan plant killed 146 workers, led to workplace safety improvements and galvanized 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.