Dave t,great post.I'm a firefighter in an "upstate" city and when we go to fire drills in our highrises,I always say its the smokers who get out first and thats only so they can light up!!

Most have no idea that there are stairways with smoke ejectors in them and those are the ones they should use.See the idea is we fight the fire from the other stairways leaving open the smoketower ones for you folks.

Also you can tell right away the buildings that take this serious. They have the glow in the dark stair stripes along with arrows,floor numbers all that glow for 30 minutes after the lights go out.These same places often also have glow sticks mounted by each door for more time.

Hell most people don't even know that the stairwell doors are locked from the stairwell side so that once they enter they can only get out at ground floors.

Blows my mind that people can work in these buildings and not know much about how to get out...