fire escapes
Outside emergency stairs
Fire escapes are exterior staircases or ladders attached to buildings, providing emergency exit routes when interior stairs are blocked or dangerous.
The classic fire escape is a zigzagging metal stairway bolted to the outside wall of an apartment building: She kept plants on her fire escape.
Fire escapes became mandatory in many cities after deadly tenement fires in the early twentieth century.
- buildingsConstructed enclosed structures
- emergency exitsDesignated escape routes
- zigzagAngled back-and-forth path
- stairwellEnclosed vertical passage for stairs
- balconiesRaised exterior platforms
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Principal point of entry
front door · elevator · grand staircase · service entrance · loading dock
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Sources of potential burning
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