R.I.P. Scout26
Same builder who built Grenfell Tower?
Cha Bu Duo
One might call me a wimp for having a fear of living at the top of a tall building (and I'm not afraid of heights). Then you might watch this video.I could never live in an average NYC apartment building, and not just because of the shitty living conditions.
Chute's take practice and can take a while to open. You'd be better off with a rappelling rig bolted to the wall ready to go.
Some years ago in a thrift store I came across a suitcase, with a harness , and about 500 ft of line in it, and instructions- it was, as far as I could tell, a ready made high rise escape kit.
Good idea - rappelling doesn't take any practice at all. Valid point about taking time for a chute to open, though - you're probably better off using a chute from the 70th floor rather than the 5th. Hmmm . . . hang glider . . .
The Towering Inferno in real life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cphle9wkjCEAccording to multiple articles, the fire was reported at 3:48 p.m. and was out by 4:20 p.m. I'd love to know how they put out that fire in half an hour.
In that video, you can see water spraying on the building and it only reaches several floors up. The only way I can imagine it is if there was fire water nozzles along every floor up to the top that were not in operation (left off?) and were suddenly turned on and were able to put water to every floor up the building. Only other thing that comes to mind is if the fire didn't reach into the building very far and it burned off whatever it was on the outside that was fueling the fire. That assumes something external was burning.Just guesses.
From the video it looked like mostly an exterior cladding fire. There were quite a few flaming chunks drifting off the building down to the ground a ways from the base. The fire had penetrated into the building proper on some floors.
Loosely translate to "close enough" or "almost"
Your daily safety depends on WAY too many people you don't know.I'd want a parachute and a way of getting out and away from the building so the chute could open.