EMERGENCY STEPLADDER
An emergency stepladder for offering an escape route alongside an outer wall of a building comprises a number of successive ladder parts 11, 12 that can move between a first position and a second position. Said ladder parts are provided with latching means 14 for latching the ladder parts in the first position. The latching means comprise control means 15 which set free the ladder part latched by the latching means so that it may assume the second position when touched. Each time, the control means of successive ladder parts are positioned in a trajectory that is passed through by the previous ladder part when moving from the first to the second position. In this way, a cascade of swinging ladder parts will occur, once an arbitrary ladder part is set free, resulting in a continuous escape route.