fire escape
消防通道,防火通道,防火梯,逃生通道
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- : an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
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When I first started growing trees on my apartment fire escape in New York last year, I didn’t expect to mourn one of their deaths.
The fire escape was equally useless, bending under the weight of those fleeing for their lives.
Turn a fire escape into a temporary reading nook—because the set handily folds up, the pieces can be stored when not in use, ensuring spaces stay clear and safe during downtime.
We were already being over-surveilled in our building as is with 24, 24-7 HD recording cameras within every nook and cranny of these buildings except in our apartments and the fire escape stairs.
But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
Maybe Mary is being more realistic about a second marriage—but is it too much to ask for a little fire?
A fire that he insists is only picking up pace, according to top-secret intelligence briefings.
"Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
The fire had been heaped over with earth—to screen it from prying eyes, I suppose, while the good work went on.
But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.