Once again you demonstrate your stupidity...... The red rings that were used during WWII were on just ONE window on each floor to show firemen where to put their ladders to help escaping occupants.
ONE window on each floor.... Dumb ass.....
— Fire Engineering, 1948
RED CIRCLES TO FACILITATE RESCUE The red circle will show the way in and out of Syracuse’s burning buildings.
Fire Chief William J. Connelly has announced that red circles will be painted
shortly on upper-floor windows of factories, warehouses and other business
places.
According to press accounts furnished
Fire Engineering by James R. Jackson,
Oswego, N. Y., the circle will indicate the window opens into an aisle or passage-
way which will give firemen easy access to fight flames or effect rescues.
Persons trapped inside a particular building will know that any window bearing
the red circle will be the first place from which they will be rescued.
The details of painting the red circles on windows, Chief Connelly said, are in
the hands of Lieut. John Dacey of the fire prevention bureau. Each circle will
measure eight or more inches in diameter, depending upon the size of the window.
Employers and employes alike, the reports say, have agreed to keep
free of obstructions all aisles leading to red circled windows.
Circles not limited to WWII bombing nor one-per-floor.