Horizontal exits shall be provided in certain occupancies. Horizontal exit is an arrangement which allows alternate egress from one floor to another floor in an adjoining building or an adjacent ...

Sharp exit: The high-rise evacuation slide that can get you from the top of a fifth floor building to the bottom in 14 seconds. Chinese inventor Zhou Miaorong tested his idea in Shanghai building ...

February 26, 2005 It's a scenario made even more frightening by graphic television footage in recent times - trapped at the top of a burning building with exits cut-off facing the gruesome choice ...

The high-rise building where fire and smoke killed 25 people in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, did not have a proper fire suppression system — and some of its emergency exit doors were locked ...