Fire escape
A fire escape was a stairway on the outside of a building used for escaping the premises in case of a fire or another emergency situation.

In 1930, James T. Kirk and Spock stole some clothes from a fire escape in New York City. ()

In Detroit, in the year 2004, when Jonathan Archer and T'Pol confronted  in his apartment, leading him to flee out the window and down the fire escape. ()

On April 12, 2024, when Cristóbal Rios materialized in Los Angeles, he was off target, and was too high above ground-level, and so he fell a few stories, grasping a fire escape briefly, but then slipping, and landing hard and painfully on the sidewalk below. ()

In late August of that same year, many fire escapes were on the buildings within Sanctuary District A, and people would often stand on the fire escapes and look down at the street below them watching newcomers arrive. Benjamin Sisko and Julian Bashir were such newcomers that they had seen walking down the street. ()

In 2266, when Spock, Fields, and Galloway were on the streets of  searching for the Onlies, they walked beneath a fire escape in an alley. At one point Spock climbed up the fire escape before realizing the children were no longer up there. ()

In 2372 of an alternate timeline, Harry Kim used a fire escape to flee from two Starfleet security officers who had beamed into his apartment to apprehend him when he tried to tamper with his security anklet. ()

In New Orleans in the year 2372, some fire escapes were decorated with flowers and other plants. ()

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