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fire escape

noun

an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.

fire escape

a means of evacuating people from a building in the event of fire, esp a metal staircase outside the building

First recorded in 1670–80

I had to climb through a concrete hole and down a welded fire escape ladder to get into the store.

Tears streamed down his face as he left the stage, and for the next fifteen minutes he sat alone on a fire escape, weeping.

Black Hood raised his eyes to the second story, marked the window which was nearest the fire escape at this point.

Lamb got out there, found the built-in fire escape, and got down to fourteen.

I leaped and caught the bottom rung of a fire escape, pulled myself up until I could get a foothold.

On the fire escape he saw Merrick, descending to the bottom with all possible rapidity.

Here was an iron fire escape, running from the fourth story to the second.

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