The western-district residents committee thus came up with an ingenious method of escape: they spent more than NT $ 40,000 to have a stainless steel ladder made to join up the eleventh to the eighteenth buildings. "If a fire should break out in building A, then we first go up to the roof and use the ladder to escape to building B," says resident Kuo Hui-tsan with some satisfaction.
西區自治會因此想了個逃生妙法，花四十多萬塊錢訂製不鏽鋼鐵梯，將其中相鄰的十一棟到十八棟以鐵梯相連結起來，「萬一 A 棟著火時，大家可先逃到頂樓，利用鐵梯，逃到未被波及的 B 棟」，住西區的郭輝燦對他們自治會想出這防火逃生妙招頗為得意。