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Fire escape

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the series of emergency doors, ladders, or stairs used to evacuate a building if a fire breaks out.

    "Eight ladies with Ugandan associations had ascended the fire escape and were making their way through his room."

  2. 2
    a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency wordnet
  3. 3
    The entire escape route viewed as a whole.
  4. 4
    Any apparatus designed to allow people to escape a burning building, such as a canvas tube for sliding down. historical

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