Where's the Fire???

So I'm peacefully watching a TV program and get a text from my son asking if I'm OK. It seems he heard a news report that my apartment building was on fire. Within the next few minutes I had a call and a text from my brother and a friend asking the same thing. Meanwhile, I had heard no sirens, smelled no smoke and figured there must be a mistake somewhere.  I walked out on my balcony and saw a fire engine and some police cars parked at the Superior Street entrance to our parking lot.  Now I was curious, so I checked news reports and saw a really dramatic picture on the WPTA web site; a huge billowing cloud of smoke coming out of the top of the east building. I live in the north building, happily. Turns out there was a kitchen fire in a 14th floor apartment in that building.  It's all out now, but it has me thinking. Perhaps I should invest in some sort of fire escape, perhaps a rope ladder?  I was explaining to my youngest brother the other day how I figure I could leap from my balcony to the trees across the parking lot and they would break my fall. They look soft and fuzzy from up here. However he informed me that if I can't jump the width of the parking lot to the tree line on ground level I won't be able to do it from 10 floors up. What a buzzkill, but he might be right. So now I will research portable fire escapes.