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Safety Information For consumers High-rise buildings
High-rise buildings
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The multiple floors of a high-rise building create the cumulative effect of requiring great numbers of persons to travel great vertical distances on stairs in order to evacuate the building. In the evacuation of the World Trade Center high-rise office towers following the terrorist bombing in 1993, the tens of thousands of building occupants successfully and safely traversed some five million person-flights of stairs.
Evacuation and planning information
- Developing a Preparedness Plan and Conducting Emergency Evacuation Drills (PDF, 4.3 MB)
- Emergency Evacuation Planning Guide for People with Disabilities
- Strategies for cre ating evacuation messages
NFPA report
"High-Rise Building Fires" , by John R. Hall, Jr., June 2009.
NFPA Journal® articles
- High concept: Proposed NFPA code changes for high-rise buildings. (March/April 2007)
- Fire Unchecked: Fire spreads in South America’s tallest high-rise building in Caracas, Venezuela, because its sprinkler system had not been properly tested or maintained (March/April 2005)
- On the Rise: Chicago adopts high-rise ordinance and amends installation standards to reduce costs. (January/February 2005)
- New Way Out Ideas: A hard look at unconventional means of evacuation from high-rise buildings. (November/December 2003)
- Evacuation Access: Though concerns remain, new attitudes are helping people with disabilities evacuate high-rise buildings more safely (July/August 2002)
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