Abstract: An escape ladder stored in an interior wall of a building, beneath a window. The ladder is deployed by placement through a window with a storage container providing a step for ease in exiting. Ladder steps are secured by a flexible strap with each step including an integral spacer to maintain proper positioning of the steps upon deployment. The ladder is stored in a nest configuration pattern with the connecting strap folded between each step.

Abstract: A pet carrier for safely transporting pets in a vehicle includes a basket having a floor and surrounding containment walls and a support assembly for mounting the carrier to a passenger seat of the vehicle so that pets restrained within the basket can easily view the outer surroundings through the vehicle's windows. The support assembly includes a pair of rear arm members movably adjustable to assume a select one of several locked, operable positions with a hooked distal end zone of the arm members resting over the top of the seat back to maintain the basket forward of the seat back, and a removable forward leg support depending below the basket for engagement with the seat base to thereby maintain the basket floor generally horizontal and above the seat base. Collapsible handles permit hand carrying of the carrier and pets therein when the carrier is removed from the vehicle and an adjustable strap in the basket attaches to the pet to restrain the pet within the carrier.