fire escape

noun

: a device for escape from a burning building

especially : a metal stairway attached to the outside of a building

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Tapia then tried to escape down the fire escape of the same window, but fell onto a second-floor landing, where even more drugs fell out of his pocket, the feds allege. —

John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Nov. 2024 In one particularly impressive moment, Li Fong fights off a bully in an alleyway by swinging off a fire escape ladder and flipping off the wall. —

Jordan Moreau, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024 Paterson, 70, and his stepson, 20, came across five unidentified suspects, who were possibly teenagers, climbing a fire escape on Second Avenue near East 96th Street shortly before 9 p.m., police sources told the New York Post. —

Landon Mion, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024 Nash tried to escape via a fire escape but retreated when police spotted him, Yorna said. —

Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for fire escape