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2. Fire escape - Wikipedia

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   Fire escape in Oulu Lower part of a fire escape in New York City. A fire escape consists of a number of horizontal platforms, one at each story of a building, with ladders or stairs connecting them. The platform and stairs usually consist of open steel gratings, to prevent the build-up of ice, snow, and leaves.

3. Emergency exit - Wikipedia

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   A fire escape is a type of external emergency exit. Local building codes or building regulations often dictate the number of fire exits required for a building of a given size, including the number of stairwells. For any buildings bigger than a private house, modern codes invariably specify at least two sets of stairs, completely isolated from ...

4. 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.

5. Man dies in 'major' apartment block fire - AOL

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   A man has died in a fire in a town centre flat. Firefighters were called to the blaze on Main Street in in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, at 5:45 GMT on Sunday. Cumbria Police said the victim was a man ...

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. Firefighters use ladder to pull person from Wichita apartment ...

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   Firefighters used a ladder to pull one unresponsive person from an east Wichita apartment building fire that injured four people early Friday morning, battalion chief Jose Ocadiz said ...