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Jim Yanik wrote:

Bad thing about burglar bars is that they often trap the occupants
inside if a fire occurs

I've seen on TV a kind of burlgar bars that are like a hinged steel
gate mounted inside the house. A cable-linked, pedal-operated
mechanism allows the burglar bars to be unlocked from the inside.

Except that under the stress of a home fire,with the room full of
smoke,crawling around on the floor,they still get trapped.
Or the mechanism is not exercised and freezes up/rusts.

It's not an elegant solution (nor a perfectly safe one -- firefighters
would still have a hard time breaking in to rescue unconscious
victims),
but I think an emergency release of some sort is a must for burglar
bars.




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Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
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