Responder 1 & 2 High-Rise Fire Escape System

When fires break out in very tall buildings it can often cause additional problems that conventional fire escape routes aren't able to cope with. For example, people may become stranded on the higher floors if the corridors below them are blocked by fast-spreading smoke and flames, or if the fire escape stairs and exits are congested from large crowds attempting to use them at once.

High-Rise Fire Escape systems offer an alternative escape route for people trapped many levels above the ground. They provide a range of entirely self-contained lowering systems which can be adapted to rescue people from any height of up to 100 floors, using a Controlled Descent Device (CDD) that adjusts to the user's weight and lowers them down to earth at speeds of between 1 and 1.5 meters per second.

High Rise Fire Escape Products

This system has been designed for use in a number of different products, the details of which are listed below:

• A portable application of the CDD that can be quickly installed anywhere by tightening it between the ceiling and the floor

• Can safely lower two people at once, with a maximum load of 800 lbs / 362 kg

• Is capable of lowering two people a distance of ten storeys every 17 seconds

• The portable mount can be set up inside a window opening or extended to normal ceiling heights with its adjustable length

• Booms can be extended to lower people through window openings or off the sides of balconies

• Can be deployed - without practice - in under 3 minutes

• Patented escape suits made from para-aramid fibre that reflects 95% of radiant heat

• Training programs available for group users

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