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2. Escape chute - Wikipedia

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   A demonstration of a fire escape chute on the streets of Daegu, South Korea. An escape chute is a special kind of emergency exit, used where conventional fire escape stairways are impractical. 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.

3. 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.

4. Fire escape - Wikipedia

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   This escape tube could be rapidly deployed from a window and hung down to street level, though it was large and bulky to store inside the building. [1] A modern type of evacuation slide is the vertical spiral escape chute, which is a common means of evacuation for buildings and other structures.

5. 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 ...

6. Hyperbaric evacuation and rescue - Wikipedia

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   Saturation diving is normally done from a saturation system on a diving support vessel or an offshore platform.While under saturation, the divers cannot be decompressed quickly in response to an emergency as that would be rapidly fatal, and though unusual, emergencies requiring personnel evacuation have occurred on such platforms due to extreme weather or accidents.

7. More than 100K forced to evacuate as deadly Los Angeles fires ...

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   Altadena home catches fire hours after family flees. Beth Davis and her family left their Altadena home around 6 p.m. Tuesday. With two kids, along with three dogs and two guinea pigs, she and her ...