Comments on: Pipe Fire Escape Speeds Emptying of Large Buildings (Jun, 1930)

By: Brian Voge

Brian Voge — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:58:10 +0000

We had a fire escape tube at my elementary school in Iowa. We loved it and to get everyone use to it, we used it at least twice every day when we went to recess. it really made sense and no one got stuck inside. Even the teacher used it to after the kids had gone down so she could monitor us at recess. We went back in the regular way.
I’ll bet it saved lives!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:16:32 +0000

Growing up in Blair County Pa we had one as the slide at the Martinsburg Memorial Park in Martinsburg Pa

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:04:09 +0000

I saw this on the news…

http://www.tv.com/video/uu_ZsW.....3.09?o=cbs

(Dang! You have to download/view the entire 21 minutes?!?)

In text and photos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....conds.html

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:36:03 +0000

I see these at construction sites, figured they were for garbage.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:09:25 +0000

Warren: I could see someone claiming emotional distress for having to traumatically relive the birthing process.

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:38:46 +0000

To me the best part is the image of the “patient” who was shoved, bedding, pillows and all, down the hatch. Try that today with actual patients and expect a hfty lawsuit, even if you did save them from a fire.

By: Toronto

Toronto — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:18:43 +0000

The real funis when they hook up the big vacuum pump after the fire drill andsuck everyone back to their rooms.

(Cue “Futurama” theme music.)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:08:48 +0000

We had one of these in my middle school too. Never got to try it out during a fire drill though.

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:02:54 +0000

Biggest problem I’d see with this is that every kid in the building would want to play with it.

By: Jari

Jari — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:18:23 +0000

Shmoo2, exactly. Certain episode of The Simpsons cames to mind

By: Shmoo2

Shmoo2 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:11:48 +0000

It’s all fun until the fat guy gets stuck near the bottom and theres a traffic jam inside

By: JM

JM — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:04:42 +0000

How much building’s stories this tube is useful in? Because at least the building were very large, the angle of the tube will cause the people inside to crash on the floor, although unburned of course.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:52:25 +0000

We had one of these at my middle school. We still used it for fire drills until the mid-eighties.