Wal-Mart also told its suppliers, "All floors and buildings, including dormitories, must have a secondary exit, and preferably an external fire escape route".
That was when a bloodied hand waved from the rooftop and they took the fateful decision to climb the external fire escape that led into the Java House coffee shop.
It should require fireproof exits or external fire escapes, which are the most effective way to get people out of a burning building safely.
But Mr. Nova voiced dismay that Wal-Mart's new policy did not explicitly require fireproof staircases or external fire escapes in multistory factories.
The Olimpias representatives admitted that they continued to make orders despite knowing that few factories in the country had external fire escapes, seen as a basic safety requirement by most experts.
In nonfireproof buildings, like virtually all private homes, brownstones and low-rise older apartment buildings that have external fire escapes, the department says the safest approach is to get out right away.
Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium in Washington, said a major reason so many workers died was that yarn and fabric were not stored in a fireproof warehouse, as required by law, and that the eight-story factory did not have the external fire escapes or enclosed fireproof, smoke-proof staircases that the Walmart-backed inspector should have flagged.
Spiderman can do whatever a spider can, much like my friend Ricky who will shoot up an exposed ladder like a ferret given half a chance and is arch nemesis to all external fire escapes.
Social media makes it increasingly difficult for teenagers to escape external pressures and find their own space.
That, in the end, seems to be the main message of research into writer's block: It's useful to escape from external and internal judgment — by writing, for instance, in a dream diary, which you know will never be read — even if it's only for a brief period.
