0 (a part of) a building that would burn easily if a fire started by accident or would be difficult to escape from during a fire
1 a building that would burn easily if a fire started and would be difficult to escape from
2 a building or part of a building that would burn easily if a fire started, or that would be difficult to escape from during a fire:
Routine inspections would have revealed that the premises were a potential firetrap.
We must ensure that they do not attract schoolchildren, students and ordinary people who, if the opportunity exists, may occasionally be tempted into these obscene firetraps.
She said at the time the place was a firetrap, we were afraid to move in.
The report went on to say that the mansion was a virtual firetrap.
In the 1940s, a number of newspaper reports decried the facility as a firetrap with patients occupying even attic areas of the building.
Had we torn out the 1915 exposition buildings and landscaped the park we would have a beautiful place there now and not a long row of ramshackle firetraps.
