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High Rise Escape Device

Here is an interesting idea for evacuating people from high rise buildings (from FireFightingNews.com).

The team came up with a potentially lifesaving solution: a $1 million escape device with expandable cabins that could be lowered like lifeboats outside a high-rise in distress. A prototype tested in Tel Aviv won praise from politicians, public safety experts and the landlord of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper who offered his property for a pilot program.

Here is the company website for Escape Rescue Systems. Watch the video demonstating the system.

I know very little about high rise fires, so I don't know if this device is practical or not. However, this type of innovative thinking is important to the continued fire safety improvement.

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