The Fire Escape

New Haven Register;  January 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ......garment worker, jumped from the jammed fire escape to save her life. Horror unfolded above...now 72. She followed the crowd to the fire escape, a fateful -- and for some fatal...neighbors and friends trapped on an exterior fire escape. The fire destroyed five businesses...

CITY TO PROBE FIRE ESCAPE IN FATAL FALL OF STUDENT

The Boston Globe;  January 5, 2002 ;     408 words ......Thompson fell to his death from the fire escape and not the roof of an apartment building...will investigate to determine if the fire escape's condition was a factor in Thompson...Inspectional Services Department revealed the fire escape is in violation of state law requiring...

FAMILIES ASKED TO MAKE THEIR OWN FIRE ESCAPE PLAN

Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  September 20, 1998 ;     2 words ...Headline Only.

Care home patient dies on fire escape

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 10, 1989 ;     63 words ......Richards, 65, dead Thursday on a fire escape at Carmen Manor Nursing Home...out of her room and onto the fire escape. Belmont Area Violent Crimes...O'Connor said the door to the fire escape had an alarm to warn the nursing...

Fire escape plunge victim sues NHS.(News)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  May 13, 2005 ;     351 words ......MAN who plunged 40ft from a hospital fire escape when he was a child has launched a compensation...security and stopped from climbing the fire escape at all. Mr Keown was jailed for four...hospital site but had never climbed the fire escape until the day of the accident, although...

FIREFIGHTERS RESCUE TWO TRAPPED ON FIRE ESCAPE

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  October 10, 1998 ;     289 words ......10-10-1998 FIREFIGHTERS RESCUE TWO TRAPPED ON FIRE ESCAPE By TIMOTHY D. MAY Date: 10-10-1998...Firefighters rescued two men on a fire escape outside a burning house early Friday...back, firefighters saw two men on the fire escape outside the three-story house, yelling...

MUSIC LOVERS ROCK AND ROLL IN CLUB'S CHURCH HOME FIRE ESCAPE HAS MOVED...

The Virginian Pilot;  November 29, 2001 ;     414 words ...Byline: HEIDI F. GREENE Correspondent The Fire Escape, once a popular Christian nightclub...hosted the shows since April after The Fire Escape had been holding concerts ``wherever...haircut dyed bright red, said The Fire Escape is just like any other club except smoking...

Lack of Fire Escape Planning Can Be Deadly; Majority of Families Do Not...

U.S. Newswire;  March 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ......developing and regularly practicing a fire escape plan becomes crucial. "Even when children...until it was too late. Practicing a fire escape plan with children on a regular basis...of planning and regularly practicing fire escape plans with the entire family, especially...

U. South Dakota sophomore falls from third floor fire escape

University Wire;  October 18, 2001 ;     443 words ......when a pledge fell off the building's fire escape. University of South Dakota sophomore...just mud and localized cement under the fire escape and he hit both," said Mark Bain, Delta...Someone told me there was a person on the fire escape," Peterson said. "I stepped out on the...

Man jumped to his death from fire escape

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  December 14, 2006 ;     221 words ......problems jumped to his death from the fire escape of a derelict building near where he...Vernon Carreras, 43, jumped from the fire escape on the derelict drying tower of dairy...Tattersall saw Mr Carreras climb the fire escape, although he did not realise who it...

Lapdance plunge man was scared of heights; SMOKER FELL FROM CLUB'S FIRE...

The Mirror (London, England);  May 23, 2006 ;     345 words ......after falling from a lapdancing club fire escape while having a cigarette. Eamonn Mulvenna...said: I wouldn't let a dog go on to the fire escape never mind a person. I just hope people...said the only alternative to using the fire escape was to send people out on to the street...

Maryland Inventor Develops Fire Escape Device

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 29, 2007 ;     283 words ......Parkton, Md., has developed a tethered fire escape vessel. According to the U.S. Patent...Office, the invention relates to a "fire escape device that enables parents to lower...plurality of stations at which to deploy the fire escape device in case of emergency. After loading...

Damages claim for childhood prank fails; COURT: Man blamed hospital for...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  February 3, 2006 ;     257 words ......30ft fall while playing on an outside fire escape at Gulson Hospital in October 1995...it was held that his behaviour on the fire escape was foolhardy and rash . However, the...nothing inherently dangerous about the fire escape.

Qld: Long tells traveller to make sure fire escape was open

AAP General News (Australia);  January 5, 2001 ;     186 words ......Qld: Long tells traveller to make sure fire escape was open A court has been told that...English traveller to make sure she left a fire escape door open on the night of the tragedy...court LONG told her to leave the back fire escape door open at around 11pm on the night...

Fire escape fall injures NU student.(News)

The Boston Herald;  December 22, 2003 ;     62 words ......University student was seriously injured when he tumbled off his building's fire escape Saturday night, police side. The 23-year-old man, whom police did not...friends in an alley beside his building when he decided to climb the fire escape.