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fire escape (plural fire escapes)
- Any of the series of emergency doors, ladders, or stairs used to evacuate a building if a fire breaks out.
1975, Private Eye, numbers 340–366, page 198:Eight ladies with Ugandan associations had ascended the fire escape and were making their way through his room.
- The entire escape route viewed as a whole.
- (historical) Any apparatus designed to allow people to escape a burning building, such as a canvas tube for sliding down.
emergency doors, ladders etc. as a class
- Arabic: مخرج طوارئ
- Catalan: escala d'incendis f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 太平梯 (zh) (tàipíngtī), 逃生梯 (táoshēngtī), 消防梯 (xiāofángtī)
- Czech: nouzový východ (cs) m, únikový východ m
- Danish: brandstige c, brandtrappe (da) c
- Dutch: brandtrap (nl)
- Finnish: paloportaat (fire stairs)
- French: échelle de sauvetage f, escalier de secours m
- German: Notausgang (de) m
- Hungarian: tűzlépcső (hu)
- Italian: uscita di sicurezza (it) f, uscita di emergenza f
- Japanese: 火災非難設備 (kasai hinan setsubi) (equipment), 防火扉 (bōkatobira) (fire door), 非常階段 (ja) (hijō kaidan) (stairs)
- Korean: 비상계단 (bisanggyedan) (stairs)
- Plautdietsch: Fialada f
- Polish: wyjście ewakuacyjne n, wyjście pożarowe (pl) n
- Portuguese: saída de incêndio f
- Romanian: ieșire de incendiu f, ieșire de urgență f
- Russian: пожа́рная ле́стница (ru) f (požárnaja léstnica)
- Spanish: escalera de escape de incendios f, escalera de incendios f
- Swedish: brandtrappa (sv)
- Tagalog: hagdanlabasan
- Turkish: yangın çıkışı (tr)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
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