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Originally Posted by Keith P.
Presumably whatever regulations exist do not apply to high-rise apartments. I have lived in 2 of them and in both cases the door was the only exit from the bedroom and both required one to pass near the kitchen to reach the door to the hall. Both had windows but they would have been rather useless as escape routes being a dozen or more floors from the street. I do not recall either of them having sprinklers in the unit.
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Apartment buildings have fire suppression (sprinklers), It is my understanding that is the reason they do not require egress other than the bedroom door.