One woman in that part of the mill still standing became frightened, and threw her bonnet and shawl out of a fifth story door and jumped out herself, breaking her arm and injuring herself so that she cannot recover.
The officers were patrolling the building, at 39 Eldridge Street, on Thursday after having found someone trespassing, when someone walked out of a second-story door and the scent of marijuana wafted into the hall, the police said.
Trembling and in a quiet voice, she faced a bank of cameras and repeated her description of a free fall that lasted 40 or more floors, leaving her and Mr. Mesoraca stranded inside the car in a shaft without a fourth-story door.
She kept carpenters working on the house 24 hours a day -- adding a few dozen bedrooms, confusing staircases, a séance room with trick exits, strange windows and a second-story door that opens straight to the outside.
The rest of Earl Parish gained the second story, slammed a door between him and the stairs, and beat out the points of light that dotted his clothes.
It appeared someone used trash cans to gain entry via a second-story balcony, then exited through a first floor door.
Soon, flames were leaping out of the home's second story and threatening the home next door.
But I spied a rickety wooden staircase in back, so I walked up the driveway and climbed it; the second-story back door opened to a dusty kitchen.
The master suite is in the second story of an attached windmill and has French doors opening onto a deck that overlooks the ocean.
A metal fire escape door is located in the center of the west wall of the second story.
The second story is administered twice.
