Good Egress
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The History of Fireproof Buildings
In the 1700s, if a fire did break out, there wasn't a whole lot you could do about it. Around 1860, New York begins to require means of egress in tenement buildings. Tenement buildings were tall, flammable, densely packed tinder boxes. The popular cheap fix was rope.
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