NOUN
- a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency
How To Use fire escape In A Sentence
- He turns, but the girl has managed to flee by the fire escape as Lepine makes his way to the bookstore.
- I made some boysenberry and fennel-infused chamomile tea and stepped outside on the fire escape. Sunny
- It began soon after we'd sat down on the fire escape stairs, sitting in pairs on each succeeding stair.
- They are keenly priced and made ethically and well by adults in a clean factory with many fire escapes and wheelchair ramps. Times, Sunday Times
- When we attempted to contact them for an explanation as to this outrage, we were told that they had just legged it down the fire escape and into the nearest pub.
- A metal fire escape that collapsed on a 14-year-old youth, killing him instantly, was riddled with rust and a death trap, it was revealed yesterday.
- I climbed down the fire escape, and you can't put that in the closet?
- However, it had steps in front of doors, fire escapes exposed to flames, inadequate balcony stairways, and no exit signs.
- Windows in each classroom are at a height of 1.8m and thus are rendered unusable for fire escape.
- The shed was at the bottom of the garden and it is believed whoever started the fire escaped via an alleyway running alongside the house.