0 a set of metal stairs, especially on the outside of a building, that allows people to escape from a burning building -- （尤指建築物外用以逃離火場的）太平梯
As smoke billowed out, people were clambering down the fire escape at the back of the building.
In the event of a fire, make your way immediately to the nearest fire escape.
On this occasion he reached the emergency fire escape and vomited on the floor.
I think that people will always manage to get down a fire escape if they are being pursued by flames.
A nurse wrote that the fire escape doors in the nurses' home were all bolted in the interests of security.
Now we are limping up the fire escape, trying to get in through the seventh storey window.
They visited one mill where the fire escape door was locked.
We have heard the arguments about a sense of security, a fire escape or an insurance policy.
