Escape chute

The chute is a fabric (or occasionally metal) tube installed near a special exit on an upper floor or roof of a building, or a tall structure.

Their flexibility allows for compact storage, rapid deployment, and a gentler braking and controlled descent of users, as compared to traditional metal designs.

Fabric tubes may also incorporate inflatable elements to lend some degree of structural rigidity and stability to the escape chute.

Escape chutes are also installed in air traffic control towers where space for redundant stairwells is limited.

[5] An escape chute system was installed at the Cape Canaveral launchpads for the now-discontinued NASA Space Shuttle, to allow personnel to rapidly reach a safety refuge blast shelter in the event of an imminent fire or explosion.

A demonstration of a fire escape chute on the streets of Daegu , South Korea .
A metal tube fire escape chute on an old school building in Shevlin, Minnesota .
A small child is sitting in the end of the chute that allows escape from the second story of a brick building