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Residential Wheelchair Elevator
When there is a fire in a multistory commercial/residential building, how do people in wheelchairs evacuate?
Do they attempt to use the elevator even though it may be in fire service mode and in use by the fire department? Does someone have to carry them down the stairs?
There is a tremendous amount of misunderstanding about this. If the fire has just started and you are below the fire - use the elevator. The reason you do not use the elevator is that you could die of smoke inhalation. People in chairs are more likely to die in the fire than die of smoke inhalation.
If you are above the fire - use your common sense in evaluating the elevator, but it is still most likely the safest place for you when you are in a very tall building.
Recommendations about what to do in the event of a fire CHANGED after 9/11.
Elevators are not shut down until the fire department arrives. It has to be shut down with a key that only emergency personnel have.
If the elevator is not reachable or unsafe or too much time has elapsed - find the area of safe refuge that should be on every floor of every building. It is often the stairwell. Sometimes it is a restroom. Emergency personnel look there first for people who need help. It should be well marked and
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