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Show I Safety measure j suggested by county agent Do you have a way to get I j out of your basement, party 1 room, hobby shop, or laundry 1 area if a fire were to start I near the stairway? County 1 Agent D. C. Purnell says that I is an appropriate question local families ought to seriously serious-ly consider. According to Courtney H. Brewer, . Safety Specialist at Utah State University, the basement is the one area in many homes where but one I means of escape is afforded the i occupants; if that one exit is i blocked by fire there is little chance for anyone to get out j safely. 1 Other floors of the home us ually have a few windows which offer an alternate escape es-cape route. Basement windows, however, are almost always too high above the floor and too narrow to squeeze through. Home-owners who may be reluctant re-luctant to sacrifice about 27 square feet of their high-priced floor space for another flight of stairs may wish to install an outside stairway as an exit with these bonus features: For a mother who likes the odor of air-dried laundry, it is welcome wel-come short-cut to the .clothes line. For the children, it's an easy entrance without the risk of tracking mud through the house. Brewer notes that pre-as-sembled metal doors resembling resembl-ing the old wooden cellar doors in shape only, are now available. avail-able. They are water tight, light weight with a torsion bar "assist" device, intruder proof, and they automatically lock in the "up" position when opened. The county agent suggests that families might wish to get additional information from one of the companies selling these doors. I |