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Originally posted by Trepidation_Mom
So, what's the take on window guards for apartments? In NYC, you're required to have them permanently fixed on all windows of apartments with little kids (other than windows opening onto a fire escape). NYC law requires that all "child guards" must be permanently fixed to the window frame and unopenable. (Brilliant!)
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I worked on a case in which four or five children burned to death because the bars on the windows couldn't be opened. She couldn't reach their room through the fire, and they couldn't get out the window. (This isn't the East Palo Alto fire that AG referenced; this was in Oakland.)
So, bars that won't open seem to me to be incredibly dangerous.
