This is such a scarey subject but to share with you my experience in Korea in
1988 for the Paralympic Games.
The 14 storey block of flats which the ahtletes were housed during the games,
had ramps as well as lifts from the top floor down to the bottom. The ramps
were built at the side of the buildings and worked really well.
The flats were used after the games to house disabled Koreans.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anna Charles-Jones [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 07 October 2002 10:46
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> Subject: Re: Fire Safety Procedures
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> As a disabled person, this is one which comes up time and time
> again in any public place. Only recently I was relieved to
> find that it
> was just another false alarm when I was stranded on the sixth floor
> of a hotel in the middle of the night - on that occassion it was a
> member of the public who came back upstairs to inform me where
> the refuge area was because there was no signage to it, and no
> phones working to contact reception to ask.
> Anyway, to put it bluntly I would far prefer to use an evacu chair at
> the risk of contravening health and safety law instead of waiting for
> the fire brigade to come and get me out of a burning building. Fire
> evacuation procedures for disabled people are something which
> desperately need looking at and, if it is necessary for disabled
> people to wait til last to be evacuated (the general system) then
> there should be very clear signage to refuge areas and assigned
> fire marshalls to inform disabled people of what is going on instead
> of my (and many disabled friends) usual approach in the absence
> of clear procedures which is to find somewhere that looks safe and
> wait til the alarm stops...scarey but true!
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