1) Apartment building feature 2) Apartment-window view 3) Building code requirement 4) Emergency egress 5) Emergency exit of sorts 6) Emergency steps 7) Ersatz balcony, often 8) Fire protection 9) Outdoor stairway 10) Outlet 11) Safety device 12) Way out of trouble 13) West Side Story balcony
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A fire escape is a special kind of emergency exit, usually mounted to the outside of a building or occasionally inside but separate from the main areas of the building. It provides a method of escape in the event of a fire or other emergency that makes the stairwells inside a building inaccessible. Fire escapes are most often found on multiple-sto...
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A building structure arranged outside to assist in safe evacuation of occupants during an emergency; may connect horizontally beyond a fire wall or vertically to a roof or (preferably) to the ground, perhaps with a counter-weighted span to deny access to intruders.
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means of rapid egress from a building, primarily intended for use in case of fire. Several types have been used: a knotted rope or rope ladder ... [1 related articles]
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In architecture, a fire-escape is a staircase for enabling persons to escape from the upper part of a building when on fire. Fire-escapes are generally constructed of less combustible materials, such as iron or steel and sited on the outside wall of the building.
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n] - a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits emergency exit in the case of fire
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emergency exit noun a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency
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an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
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