Multistory

Each firefighter — wearing 50 pounds of gear, including an air pack — starts with an additional 45-pound hose pack (sometimes called an "apartment pack" or "hotel pack," a set of preconnected hoses used to fight fires in multistory hotels and apartments) on his shoulder and has to run up 63 steps to the top of a five-story tower. ❋ Mark Yost (2010)

Another explosion on Thursday destroyed most of a multistory police station and killed a police driver in Huangshi township in southern Hunan province, according to the local government and to the English-language China Daily newspaper. ❋ Jeremy Page (2011)

It was a beautiful city: multistory white buildings with golden spires peeking out above lush, green trees. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As we moved into the city (Port-au-Prince), there was just massive destruction, multistory buildings down, homes, schools, police stations and gasoline stations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rebels said Gadhafi's troops put up little resistance before fleeing their posts in Zawiya's hospital and multistory buildings around the main square — another sign suggesting that the Libyan dictator's 42-year-old regime is crumbling. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The explosion echoed across Kabul but caused relatively little damage to the multistory glass tower, which in addition to the hotel houses clothing, electronics and jewelry shops. ❋ Joshua Partlow (2011)

We found out later that he had jumped from the roof of Hove multistory car park. ❋ Patrick Cockburn (2011)

A multistory building that guards said served as Gadhafi's library and office was turned into a pile of twisted metal and broken concrete slabs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Gadhafi's forces pounded rebel-held areas of the city with rockets, mortars and anti-aircraft fire, but by nightfall were pushed out of a multistory hotel on the square. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The developer behind the Islamic community center to be constructed near Ground Zero said he expects to have no problem financing the project and has nearly a dozen billion-dollar companies who have expressed interest in contributing to the multistory complex. ❋ Sumathi Reddy (2010)

In recent years, many of its wood-frame houses have been replaced with multistory condominium or rental buildings, and developments continue to open. ❋ Melanie Lefkowitz (2011)

Outside, it's a multistory, concrete building with few windows. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The grandeur of the fights escalates steadily until, in the movie's final sequence, the Big Bad attacks Zen with wave after wave of apparently limitless henchmen in a blood-soaked battle that moves from a restaurant to a training hall to the facade of a seedy motel, which gives plenty of opportunity for bone-crunching multistory plummets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Other more recent projects by Gwathmey Siegel, which employs 25 architects, include the 22-story United States Mission to the United Nations; the Setai Fifth Avenue, which is opening next month; and a multistory residential project, Soho Mews. ❋ Anthony Klan (2010)

One issue, Neal said, is how to develop more accessible housing when the city's anti-sprawl policy means a lot of narrow, multistory houses are being squeezed into empty city lots — near transportation but still not age-friendly with all the stairs. ❋ Unknown (2011)