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. —

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 See all Example Sentences for fire escape