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Council proposes emergency‑escape openings on all sleeping rooms for single‑exit buildings

5920733 · August 13, 2025
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Summary

Members endorsed an enhancement to require emergency escape and rescue openings (EEROs) in all sleeping rooms and on all stories of single‑exit residential buildings, expanding the model code’s below‑fourth‑story requirement to provide redundancy when only one exit is available.

The tag group discussed emergency escape and rescue openings (EEROs) and agreed with a recommendation from the WAVO group and fire marshals to require EEROs in sleeping rooms on all stories of single‑exit R‑2 buildings, not just below the fourth story as in…

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