firetraps

Nor do I want kids going to school in firetraps, or sitting sixty in a class.

Vouchers and Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

They're basically firetraps filled with highly flammable plastic furniture, rugs and drapes, and none of them are sprinklered (not required).

Taking on the Townhouse Scourge « PubliCola 2010

What tourists don't see are these stables, which serve as firetraps with inadequate sprinkler systems and only one means to exit.

Reedu Taha: NYC Carriage Horse Rescued from Slaughter 2010

What tourists don't see are these stables, which serve as firetraps with inadequate sprinkler systems and only one means to exit.

Reedu Taha: NYC Carriage Horse Rescued from Slaughter 2010

Even when they were not kept under lock and key, the difficulty of negotiating narrow staircases, cluttered with filth and trash, turned these factories into firetraps.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

Many of its competitors have also adopted a code of conduct aimed at ensuring that their Asian factories are not dirty firetraps, working children 18 hours a day.

The New Standard: Corporations That Care 2008

And I think it will help, because at least the fire marshal's office will be on notice and the building owners will be on notice that they have firetraps.

CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2003 2003

He's got firetraps and dives all over LA, registered to phony corporations.

White Jazz Ellroy, James, 1948- 1992

There was a clear reason for this: most of the houses are woodframe firetraps, and Negroes live above most of the stores that were looted.

A Special Supplement: The Occupation of Newark Hayden, Tom 1967

Five million families are still living in slums and firetraps.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.