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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. Ladder - Wikipedia

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   Ladder of a fire escape in New York. Rigid ladders were originally made of wood, but in the 20th century aluminium became more common because of its lighter weight. Ladders with fiberglass stiles are used for working on or near overhead electrical wires, because fiberglass is an electrical insulator. [5]

4. Attic ladder - Wikipedia

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   Attic ladders are usually made of wood, metal, aluminum, or fiberglass. Also, fire departments carry attic ladders on fire apparatus for use to locate and extinguish fires in attic spaces. They are in a single ladder that is often used by firefighters for interior attic access and have hinged rungs, which allow them to be folded inward so that ...

5. 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.

6. Realtor group picks top 10 housing hot spots for 2025: Did ...

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   The end of the year means preparing for the one ahead and the National Association of Realtors is already predicting the hottest housing markets for 2025.. The NAR released The Top 10 Housing Hot ...

7. 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 ...