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Left Behind in a Blaze: A Teen’s Terrifying Ordeal and His Fight for Safer Schools
The fire alarm in his UK school starts blaring while smoke rises through the air, causing widespread panic. You are instructed to stay put during an emergency, yet your classmates are already running towards safety. You are in a wheelchair, and there is no possible way to escape. Lucas Vezza-O’Brien experienced
August 17, 2025
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How do you Evacuate Babies and Children from Multi-Storey Childcare Centres?
For centre-based early childhood education and care services, providing a safe environment for the babies and children in their care is paramount, both in their everyday operations, and also in emergency situations where an evacuation may be required. Safely evacuating
June 7, 2024
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Why you need a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan for disabled people
A Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan—also known as PEEP—is vital for keeping people safe in an emergency situation. And it’s even more important to have plans in place for disabled people, particularly those who require additional support in an evacuation situation.
December 21, 2022
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Baby Mover emergency rapid evacuation device for Childcare and Hospitals
Safety is a critically important aspect of a childcare centre. The gathering of toddlers, babies and infants, in general, makes the place highly dependent in an emergency. Since infants depend on care, the need for extra help and a transparent
September 18, 2022
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This world-class evacuation chair for stairs makes emergency management compliance simple
Complying with national emergency evacuation management standards can be complicated: special planning is required for evacuating people with disability, infants and sick or elderly people. For the buildings, workplaces and facilities in which people with limited mobility live, work or
February 18, 2020
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The Rising Risks of Vertical Schools for Students and Teachers
With the popularity of vertical schools in Australia on the rise, EvacuLife Managing Director Bruce Bromley said schools are now more than ever needing to address the additional risks related to fire safety in multi-story structures. The increase in vertical
August 8, 2018
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Teach your Children to Get Down Low and Go, Go, Go
How to teach your kids to be fire safe, and get out safely if a house fire occurs. House fires in Australia are all too common – on average, there are 3000 house fires every year in Victoria alone. If
April 12, 2017
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Safe Emergency Evacuation of Schools
With the holidays now over, and the anticipation of the school year ahead, it’s an exciting time for kids, parents and teachers alike. With every new year, there’s new challenges, and teachers have been busy planning – and this goes
February 2, 2017
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Emergency Management and Evacuation
General Requirements All buildings must develop, implement and adopt emergency plans to ensure a safe environment for employees, residents and visitors. When developing these plans the needs of people with disabilities must be considered. Ideally, all visitors should be able
December 22, 2016
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How To Prepare For An Emergency Evacuation In Childcare Centres And Hospitals
If an emergency strikes in a child care facility or a hospital where children are being cared for, the task of getting everyone out safely is challenging. Because babies and children all need extra assistance in an emergency situation any
November 10, 2016
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