Fire safety at home

Twenty years ago we bought a Victorian attic-farmhouse, and within minutes of visiting it for the first time, our young daughter had 'bagged' the large attic bedroom for herself. This gave me a real headache: With no fire doors anywhere in the house, the two-storey stairwell would become a 'chimney' in the event of a fire, and escape for someone on the attic floor would be impossible. The answer proved to be a Davey Descender - a braked reel that allows a body of any weight to descend from a high place at a steady speed. It sits tidily and unobtrusively on the wall above the window until it's needed. In that sad event, you slip the harness over your shoulders and under the armpits, throw the other end out of the window, then follow it down yourself. As you go down, the other end comes back up, ready for the next escapee. A brilliant answer to allay my fears.
The main concern was whether it might become the main attraction at some wild party, one day - a sort of drunken bungey-jumping. (If it ever did, I never found out about it).
I found it here - http://www.lymore.com
Highly recommended.