[Avodah] Mezuzos on Fire Emergency Stairwells

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

I was just on the 9th floor of this office building, and I saw that my
employer's CEO's poseiq ruled that the doors on the emergency fire
stairwells are entrances to the floor. Even though an alarm goes off
if you open the door because they are designated for emergency use
only.

That mildly surprised me, but I guess it makes sense. One could enter
the floor that way.

My floor (7), however, we only rent part of, not including the stairwells
and the halls they open to/from. Also, on my floor, the door only opens
from this side. (If you need to escape the 9th floor, the you have to
go down to 5.) It is not a re-entry floor, the way the 9th is.

Would the mezuzah still be hung as though the door were an entrance, or
would it reflect traffic from the hall down the stairs?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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