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  2. Joseph Winters - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Richard Winters (August 29, 1824 [1] – November 29, 1916) was an African-American abolitionist and inventor who, on May 7, 1878, received U.S. Patent number 203,517 for a wagon-mounted fire escape ladder. On April 8, 1879, he received U.S. Patent number 214,224 for an improvement on the ladder.

  3. Fire escape - Wikipedia

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    The ladder leading from the lowest level of the fire escape to the ground may be fixed, but more commonly it swings down on a hinge or slides down along a track. The movable designs allow occupants to safely reach the ground in the event of a fire, but prevent people from accessing the fire escape from the ground at other times (such as for ...

  4. Fire Escape Collapse - Wikipedia

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    The fire escape at the fifth floor collapsed as a turntable ladder on a fire truck was being extended to pick up the two at the height of approximately 50 feet (15 meters). The photo was taken with a motorized camera and also shows falling potted plants, as well as pieces of the collapsed fire escape.

  5. Anna Connelly - Wikipedia

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    Connelly was aware of fire safety issues and the legislation, so she decided to invent a different solution, [4] which was a fire escape design that could be adopted by more landowners to increase building safety in cities. Planning of the fire escape by Anna Connelly. Connelly's device was patented in August 1877 (No. 386,816A). [4]

  6. Escape chute - Wikipedia

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    A demonstration of a fire escape chute on the streets of Daegu, South Korea. An escape chute is a special kind of emergency exit, used where conventional fire escape stairways are impractical. The chute is a fabric (or occasionally metal) tube installed near a special exit on an upper floor or roof of a building, or a tall structure.

  7. Life net - Wikipedia

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    Life-net used in Ringtheater fire in Vienna December 8, 1881. On August 19, 1902, the New York City Fire Department conducted its first real-life rescue with the Browder life net. During rescue operations at a tenement fire that killed five people, a baby was dropped from a fourth-floor fire escape into a life net, and survived uninjured. [5]

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