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Standards and Codes Seminar

Lm2October 30, 2019February 4, 2020

Ongoing fire escape seminars nationwide

CBS Boston Exclusive: Expert Says Rotted Boston Fire Escapes Are ‘Landmines Ready To Explode’

Gabriel CabreraJuly 23, 2019May 26, 2020

Expert Says Rotted Boston Fire Escapes Are ‘Landmines Ready To Explode’ BOSTON (CBS) — WBZ-TV has discovered troubling information about a recent fire escape collapse in the Fenway neighborhood. Two people were hurt when they fell to the ground. The owner has not filed a required safety inspection certificate since at least the late 1980’s, […]

How Safe Are Fire Escapes in NY

Lm2July 1, 2019February 4, 2020

New Yorkers often treat these archaic means of egress as their own private balcony, but should they? By Jeremiah Budin Sep 18, 2018, 11:34am EDTSHARE Max Touhey New York City is full of peculiar phenomena—rickety fire escapes; 100-year-old subway tunnels; air conditionerspropped perilously into window frames—that can strike fear into the heart of even the […]

5 Things to know about Fire Escape NY

Lm2July 1, 2019February 4, 2020

One of the most memorable appearances of an NYC fire escape was in West Side Story. The movie West Side Story is a riff on Romeo and Juliet set in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York’s Upper West Side in the 1950s, so it fits that the star-crossed lovers court each other not from a balcony, but a New York fire escape. […]

West PA Residents Questioning Fire Escape Safety

Lm2July 1, 2019February 4, 2020

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Residents are questioning the safety of the building after two people were critically injured when a fire escape balcony collapsed at an apartment complex in West Philadelphia on Tuesday morning. It happened at Lexington Apartments on the 4200 block of Chester Avenue, shortly after 10 a.m. According to police, two men were […]

Two men critically injured in West Philly balcony collapse

Lm2June 28, 2019February 4, 2020

Two men were critically injured Tuesday in the collapse of a third-floor fire escape landing in West Philadelphia, police said.

NFPA Fire Escape Plan for Fire Prevention Week

Lm2June 5, 2019February 4, 2020

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has announced “Not Every Hero Wears a Cape. Plan and Practice Your Escape!” as the theme for Fire Prevention Week.

Here’s why you don’t see many fire escapes in Denver

Lm2May 16, 2019February 4, 2020

It might ease your mom’s concerns. A fire escape in North Capitol Hill. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) David SachsYesterday, 1:00 p.m Let’s answer an obscure question about your city. My editor, Ashley, asked me to find out why Denver doesn’t seem to have fire escapes, so I went to find the real answer instead of pretending I […]

Woman sues over husband’s death from falling fire escape

Lm2March 20, 2019February 4, 2020

By Priscilla DeGregory March 19, 2019 | 5:35pm | Updated Enlarge Image Richard MarchhartSupplied A widow has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the owners of a Soho building where a metal fire escape step fell seven stories striking her husband in the head and killing him. Andrea Marchhart, 57, filed the suit this week, just over a year after her husband, Richard […]

Brooklyn Fire Spurs Tenant Pleas To Fix Faulty Heat

Lm2February 18, 2019February 4, 2020

A fire at 82 Rockaway Parkway left three people wounded over the weekend and tenants say dangerous building conditions are to blame. BROWNSVILLE, BROOKLYN — Three people were hurt when a fire erupted in a crumbling Brownsville apartment complex last weekend and now tenants are demanding the landlord fix building problems they say put their […]