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2. Evacuation slide - Wikipedia

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   Evacuation slide used in an emergency drill. An evacuation slide is an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft quickly. An escape slide is required on all commercial (passenger carrying) aircraft where the door sill height is such that, in the event of an evacuation, passengers would be unable to step down from the door uninjured (Federal Aviation Administration requires slides on all ...

3. Escape chute - Wikipedia

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   The chute is a fabric (or occasionally metal) tube installed near a special exit on an upper floor or roof of a building, or a tall structure. During use, the chute is deployed, and may be secured at the bottom by a fire fighting crew some distance out from the building. Once the tube is ready, escapees enter the tube and slide down to a lower ...

4. Fire escape - Wikipedia

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   An alternative form of rapid-exit fire escape developed in the early 1900s was a long canvas tube suspended below a large funnel outside the window of a tall building. A person escaping the fire would slide down the interior of the tube, and could control the speed of descent by pushing outward on the tube walls with their arms and legs.

5. Category : Buildings and structures in Columbus, Ohio

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   Columbus, Ohio building and structure stubs (162 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Columbus, Ohio" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.

6. Evacuation slide ‘larger than a small car’ falls from plane ...

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   In 2014, a United Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Wichita, after an evacuation slide inflated inside the cabin when the plane was almost 40,000ft over Kansas.

7. United Airlines forced to land mid-flight when evacuation ...

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   United Airlines was forced to land mid-flight when an evacuation slide popped open. According to several reports, Flight 1463 took off from Chicago and was bound for California Sunday night but ...

8. Marine evacuation system - Wikipedia

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   The MES consists of five components. Controls – used to initiate the device in an emergency situation. [9]Stowage box – contains essentials for the evacuation, including the chute and the fixed appliances, such as seats, rails, etc. [10] Composed of marine grade aluminum along with inflation cylinders, usually kept on the deck taking as little as 4 m 2 of storage space.

9. Emergency evacuation - Wikipedia

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   Regulations such as building codes can be used to minimize the negative consequences of the threat triggering the evacuation and optimize the need to self-evacuate without causing alarm. Proper planning, that covers designated actions to ensure safety of the users in emergencies, will implement an all-hazards approach so that plans can be ...