# Israeli Skyscraper Fire Escape System **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-skyscraper-fire-escape-system/580903 "2011-05-06T00:30:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-skyscraper-fire-escape-system/580903/1 "2011-05-06T00:30:13Z")
Now this is freaking cool, although I wonder just how fast it is compared to people just running down stairs for their lives. But how freaking neat is that? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3w1h12UfhnA/hqdefault.jpg "Israeli Fire Escape System") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1h12UfhnA) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-skyscraper-fire-escape-system/580903/2 "2011-05-06T02:14:05Z")
So nobody else on the Dope thinks this is in any way innovative? Has this been posted before? Am I missing something? Help! ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-skyscraper-fire-escape-system/580903/3 "2011-05-06T03:08:02Z")
I think it looks pretty cool. However, I enjoy a bit of panicking during fires. I never really get to panic so I’m taking every opportunity to when I can ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-skyscraper-fire-escape-system/580903/4 "2011-05-06T03:23:29Z")
As long as each floor doesn’t have more than six people, it looks great! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-skyscraper-fire-escape-system/580903/5 "2011-05-06T04:07:51Z")
I’m afraid of heights, I think I would have trouble not panicking in one of those things. On the other hand, it is closed in and you can’t see out, so maybe it would be ok. You would need more than several of those per building, though, as **Boyo Jim** notes, or it would take hours to evacuate everyone. And you would have to have plenty of well-trained folks to get the windows set up while the compartments are being sent up. Maybe this doesn’t replace going down fire stairs or even a fire escape, but it supplements it and provides egress for slow or disabled people. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-skyscraper-fire-escape-system/580903/6 "2011-05-06T04:24:54Z")
The way it was setting up I thought it was going to deploy some sort of rappelling system, so I’m rather disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-skyscraper-fire-escape-system/580903/7 "2011-05-06T04:42:10Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Now this is freaking cool, although I wonder just how fast it is compared to people just running down stairs for their lives. > > But how freaking neat is that? > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1h12UfhnA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w1h12UfhnA) That is interesting. Normally in a fire ADA goes out the window. Those with disabilities go last. They show a wheel chair going first. Did you notice there were only 5 containers? It would help in relocation buildings getting the disabled of the fire and relocation floors. And a nit pick. In a fire drill of an evacuatin building you do not run down the stairs it is to dangerous the alarm anouncement will tell you to walk to the exits do not run. A evacuation building call for the people on the involved floors to leave the building. A relocation building calls for the involved floors to relocate either 3 or 5 floors down if the fire is above the 7th floor. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/israeli-skyscraper-fire-escape-system/580903/8 "2011-05-06T04:47:38Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > The way it was setting up I thought it was going to deploy some sort of rappelling system, so I’m rather disappointed. I was expecting a giant air cushion.