Industry group proposes use of elevators during fires

摘要

We've all read and heard the nightmarish details of how the heroic firefighters made their way―step by step―up the overcrowded and under-designed stairways of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11, only to make it about half way up when the towers collapsed. Or the disturbing stories of how numerous physically disabled occupants were left to wait at elevator lobbies, hoping that somehow, someway an elevator cab would come to their rescue. Those in the elevator industry think there must have been a better way.