For escape from high-rises, it's high tech to the rescue!
A Christian Science Monitor article by Mark Clayton, via USA Today, reports that:
Down at the Safer America store in midtown Manhattan, the "high-rise kit" with the Executive-Chute — an escape parachute for skyscrapers — sells for about $1,000.
The high-rise parachute kit is not the store's bestseller — not close, says its manager. But some buy it.
Since 9/11 and the collapse of the World Trade Center, business executives, architects, engineers, and safety experts have worked to find safer ways to evacuate skyscrapers, focusing mostly on improving stairwells and elevators.
But on the fringes of this effort is a raft of what are called "last-resort" devices like the Executive-Chute, intended for people who might otherwise be trapped by blocked stairwells or inoperable elevators.
posted by Fergie @ 10/24/2005 04:46:00 PM
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