Anti-Terror Expert in Wake of Mumbai: Use of Escape Rescue System by Swat Teams Can Provide Tactical Advantage, Surprise

HOD HASHARON, Israel, December 11 /PRNewswire/ –

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Former Israel Mossad Deputy Chief and anti-terrorism expert General
(Res.) Amiram Levin said, “There is little doubt that in many scenarios, such
as the recent events in Mumbai, use of the Escape Rescue System by SWAT teams
can provide tactical advantage and surprise, while making feasible an
otherwise impossible assault on a building held by terrorists.” The statement
was made in response to a multitude of enquiries about the system, following
the terror attacks in several high-rise buildings in Mumbai, India in late
November.

Designated by the US Department of Homeland Security as a Qualified
Anti-Terrorism Technology, Escape Rescue Systems’ multi-story platform is the
“quintessential external evacuation system,” according to Yoni Shimshoni, CEO
of Escape Rescue Systems.

Stored unobtrusively on a skyscraper’s roof, the system is independently
powered and operated to ensure its availability in a mass emergency in a
high-rise building. In their folded form, the cabins are lowered to ground
level, where first responders unfold and enter from two to five cabins, which
promptly deliver up to 5 SWAT team members or fire fighters per cabin to
multiple stories simultaneously. The evacuation system can rescue 30 people
per cabin, or 150 people in a full, 5-cabin configuration every 8 minutes.

Following the terror attacks of 9/11 and Mumbai, as well as fires in
office towers and residential skyscrapers, external evacuation systems are
increasingly regarded as an essential precautionary measure for saving lives
and getting first responders to their desired location in buildings under
attack or at risk.

In its June 2005 report on the World Trade Center collapse, the US
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommended the
consideration of exterior escape devices and modification of safety codes to
improve the safety of tall buildings, their occupants and first responders.
Since then, an increasing number of standards and codes have been revised.

Escape Rescue Systems announced its revolutionary external evacuation
system complies with a number of evacuation standards and emergency safety
codes:

    - The National Fire Protection Association's Building Construction and
      Safety Code NFPA 5000 and the Life Safety Code NFPA 101 which define
      the conditions for installation of Platform Rescue Systems and
      Controlled Descent Devices.

    - American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standard E 2513 for
      Multi-Story Building External Evacuation Platform Rescue Systems -The
      Escape Rescue System is unique in complying with this standard.

    - Approved for safety by the German Laboratory TUV, the Standards
      Institution of Israel and Israel's Ministry of Labor and Welfare.

For more information:

View the two video clips on the Company homepage:
http://www.escaperescue.com, or contact:

Erez Michaeli, Vice President Marketing, +972-54-796-9713,
erez@escaperescue.com

SOURCE Escape Rescue Systems