LIFESLIDER RESCUE DEVICE

LIFESLIDER RESCUE DEVICE

Lifeslider: Designed for rescuing wheelchair-bound victims from high-rise buildings. All-terrain, flat-bottomed toboggan-like device slides down stairs, around inside corners and landings, through small doorways, and across pavement. Weighs 21 pounds, has load limit of 300 pounds. Body constructed of polymer, straps of two-inch polypropylene webbing with hook-and-loop fasteners. (316) 442-4543.

Hand entrapped in rope gripper

Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.