fire escape
Example Sentences
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Bryant entered the building containing the recording studio and opened a locked fire escape exit door to allow others to slip in without being seen by Mizell.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
When one supportive community member played chants from a speaker in his apartment window, an officer scaled the building’s fire escape to tell him to stop, video of the incident shows.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024
We pass a building adorned with a zigzag of metal fire escape steps where Tom Cruise was chased in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2024
It showed Mark Gordon going up a fire escape and then apparently trying to force a door of the building.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2024
We are on a hill, and from this fire escape I can see all the way to the spires of the National Cathedral.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
