Balcony safety in high-rise living

That was a few years back in 1991 when I heard news about famed singer Eric Clapton’s son. He literally ran out of an open full-height window in the apartment owned by his mother’s friend where they stayed while on holiday. The window, about six feet high and four feet wide, was negligently left open after it was cleaned by a housekeeper. The boy entered the room and darted past both his nanny and the housekeeper and fell out onto a neigh-boring building. The window was not designed to be opened, and strangely, was not properly fitted with security features. The toddler plummeted down 29 floors.