Advocates Fire Exits Instead of Fire Drills
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“As a means of increasing the efficiency of life-saving methods resorted to in business buildings in order to avoid the dangers of sudden conflagrations and panics, the exit test is supplanting the fire drill, which is made compulsory by law in the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The primary object of the exit test is to determine if the building is properly designed, so that in the emergency of a fire the occupants may be able to effect their escape rapidly without the probability of injury from stairway or other congestion, which inevitably causes panic.”
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