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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Nash tried to escape via a fire escape but retreated when police spotted him, Yorna said.
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024
But to transform the generic shopping mall into an intimate department store layout required a complete overhaul of the customer navigation system, which meant a reconfiguration of the building’s fire escape structure.
—Denni Hu, WWD, 30 July 2024
Photo: Courtesy of Miramax Unzipped: Isaac Mizrahi on his fire escape.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2024
Valdez made headlines in 2017 when he was charged with stabbing a woman and her 3-year-old daughter and then threatening to toss the girl off a Bronx fire escape.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024
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Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024
But to transform the generic shopping mall into an intimate department store layout required a complete overhaul of the customer navigation system, which meant a reconfiguration of the building’s fire escape structure.
—Denni Hu, WWD, 30 July 2024
Photo: Courtesy of Miramax Unzipped: Isaac Mizrahi on his fire escape.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2024
Valdez made headlines in 2017 when he was charged with stabbing a woman and her 3-year-old daughter and then threatening to toss the girl off a Bronx fire escape.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2024
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“Fire escape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire%20escape. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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