noun
General Slang
bail-out
· noun · firefighter
Emergency escape out a window when the room turns on you.
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A last-resort emergency exit from an upper floor of a burning building — out a window onto a ladder, down a personal escape rope and hook, or in the worst case a head-first dive to a waiting ladder. Drilled relentlessly after the Black Sunday fire in the Bronx (2005), where six FDNY members had to jump from a fourth-floor apartment and two died. Most modern departments now issue every member a personal bail-out kit.
“Conditions went from bad to bail-out in about ten seconds when the wind shifted on us.”
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bail-out In A Sentence
Conditions went from bad to bail-out in about ten seconds when the wind shifted on us.
Origin & Usage
Borrowed from aviation ("bail out" of an aircraft); entered firefighting vocabulary mid-20th century, formalised after the FDNY Black Sunday fire of January 23, 2005.
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