Mag,

When I worked for our divisional headquarters, my department was on the 
3rd floor and they got me out in an evacuation chair during fire 
drills.  It basically was a sling chair in a metal frame that had 
runners instead of legs or wheels and long handles in the back so the 
person pushing you could easily push you in the chair as it went down 
the stairs.  It worked but I hated the drills they had right after lunch!

I now work at the corporate headquarters and my office is on the 1st 
floor - no need for evacuation chairs at the moment.

Kat


Tamar Raine wrote:
> wow kyle!
> say, have you found anything (like a special evacuation chair)
>  to get people who are in wheelchairs down the stairs in case of emergency?  I don't know if you know it, but for the past five or six years, I've sat on the mayor's commission on pwd - my two terms are nearly up, and unless they ask me to stay on as vice chair, I am out of there.  One of our concerns is getting pwd out of burning buildings, and earthquakes. We've had one person with a small business show us one evac chair. pretty good, but they're not "certified" so the ada coordinator doesn't want to reccomend them to council. 
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