Fire escape facts for kids

A fire escape, outside a building (the iron stairs)

Fire exits are signalled with signs similar to the one shown

When a person needs to get away from a fire, inside a building or a tunnel, they need to do this quickly. For this reasons, fire escapes are installed, and signaled. Very often fire escapes are separate stairways, often outside the building.

Images for kids

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  Fire escape in Greenwich Village

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  Fire escape in a public building in Rotterdam

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  Lower part of a fire escape in New York.

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  Anna Connelly's 1887 patent US368816A for a fire escape

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  Houghton's portable fire escape 1877

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  Fire escape at the Krause Building on East 4th Street, Cleveland.

See also

In Spanish: Escalera de incendios para niños