My friend goes to UCLA.  A fire alarm went off in the building she was
in.  Some of the students were getting ready to carry her down the
stairs, the rescuers told them to leave her and get out.  Then they told
her they couldn't do anything for her.  Fortunately it was a false alarm.
 When she went to report the incident, the rescuers denied it.

Cindy

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:32:24 -0700 Dave at Inclusion Daily Express
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> DENVER SCHOOL PLAN EVACUATES ALL STUDENTS -- EXCEPT THOSE WITH
> DISABILITIES
> By Dave Reynolds, Editor
> Inclusion Daily Express
> June 8, 2000
>
> DENVER, COLORADO--Joseph Ford is afraid. The West High School
> sophomore, who
> has cerebral palsy, told
> the school board last week that he is afraid because the Denver
> School
> District's emergency evacuation plan calls for students in
> wheelchairs to
> remain in "designated assistance rooms" to wait for rescuers rather
> than
> leave the building.
>
> His mother, Penny Ford, is also afraid and has been asking the
> district for
> two years to purchase an Evac-chair, a device that transforms from a
> wheelchair into a kind of sled for moving somebody quickly in an
> emergency.
>
> The Fords were not reassured when officials told them that the Fire
> Department can get to any place in the city faster than school
> personnel
> could get Joseph onto an Evac-chair and out of the building. Penny
> pointed
> out that during the shootings at Columbine High School last spring,
> those
> who escaped did so on their own, and that rescuers did not enter the
> building for several hours.
>
> Ford also was not reassured when the school's principal suggested
> that
> during a fire the students would be safe in the three-story school's
> designated assistance rooms.
>
> "The walls, as far as I know, are thick enough so that somebody
> could stay
> there for a reasonable amount of time and be safe in a fire
> situation," said
> West principal Irene Jordan.
>
> The district said it will look into getting the Evac-chairs, which
> cost
> about $900 each. The policy regarding designated "safe" rooms will
> likely
> not be altered any time soon.
>
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