WOOSTER − Julia Jorgenson and a helper prepared to demonstrate a complicated-looking folded green and black contraption with wheels called an evacuation chair. With two sets of handles, straps and ...

Evacuating a building in the event of a disaster can be hard enough when the occupants are healthy enough to walk down the stairs. But when the building being evacuated is a hospital, getting people ...

Solihull-based Evac+Chair International has launched its first powered evacuation chair. Since beginning its operations in Birmingham, the business has created manual evacuation chairs, supplying ...

(TNS) - The city learned something last summer when its emergency management agency ran an evacuation drill at City Hall. First of all, counting on the function of an elevator during an emergency ...

Keller Army Community Hospital at West Point executed a complete evacuation drill May 21. "This was a test of our emergency preparedness," Lt. Col. Thomas A. Bell, deputy commander for administration, ...