The document summarizes two incidents of fires in garment factories - the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York that killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, and a 2012 fire in Bangladesh that killed 112 people. Both fires occurred in factories where exits were locked, trapping the workers inside. The Triangle fire led to increased safety regulations and unions fighting for better conditions, but another fire in Bangladesh just two months later showed that issues of locked doors and unsafe conditions persisted abroad.