FIRE ESCAPES

[manhattan]

Escape to Nowhere - WESTVIEW NEWS

By Ananth Sampathkumar, Partner, NDNY Architecture + Design “Man Struck and Killed by Falling Debris from New York Building Fire Escape,” read the headline from an online paper covering the incident in Soho earlier this year. The irony is all too obvious. The structure that was meant to save...

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Escape to Nowhere

 

[nfd2004]

Some of the more senior guys might remember the photo of a mother and daughter falling from a fire escape in 1975 after it failed in Boston, Mass.

www.rarehistoricalphotos.com/mother-daughter-falling-fire-escape-1975/