EvacuationYour guests can check in on any floor.
Can they all get out?
A hotel is a public accommodation. Under the ADA you're obligated to have a way to evacuate a mobility-impaired guest when the elevators lock out — and most hotels have a line in a binder and nothing in the stairwell. Outpost closes that gap: the chair, the sling, the trained night crew, and the documentation, in one deployment.
The obligation is on you — whether or not there's a chair in the stairwell.
DOJ's Title III manual (§III-4.2100): a public accommodation “is obligated to modify its evacuation procedures… to provide alternative means for clients with mobility impairments to be safely evacuated.”
The nationwide Hilton consent decree (2010, ~900 hotels) required staff training on emergency procedures for guests with disabilities; the Bass Hotels settlement was the first of its kind.
Areas of refuge aren't required in fully-sprinklered high-rise hotels, which is exactly why assisted stairwell descent is the fallback that has to actually work.
Every hotel fire that rewrote the rules has the same shape: people cut off above the fire.
Guests on the upper floors of the 21-story tower were cut off when smoke poured through the stairwells and air ducts. The disaster that drove modern high-rise sprinkler and egress law.
The “fireproof” 15-story hotel had a single interior stairway and no fire escapes; ladders reached only the 8th floor. It catalyzed modern life-safety codes.
Locked exits turned an escapable fire into an entrapment — the enduring lesson that the people who can't move fast are the ones who don't get out.
Nothing undoes these losses. But every one ends the same way — people who couldn't take the stairs, with no way down once the elevators shut off. A stairway evacuation chair in every guest-floor stairwell, and a transfer sling to reach the guest who can't get to it, is the capability that gives those people a path to the exit. That readiness is the entire reason Outpost exists.
Sources: NFPA / USFA investigation reports; contemporary reporting. Framed as vertical-egress failure; we never claim specific victims were disabled.
Carried down 69 floors — and lived.
On 9/11, John Abruzzo, a quadriplegic Port Authority accountant, was on the 69th floor of the North Tower. Colleagues placed him in a stairway evacuation chair and took turns carrying him down all 69 flights in about ninety minutes. He survived. In the 1993 bombing — before the chairs were staged — the same descent took roughly six hours. One piece of equipment in the stairwell was the difference.
Equipment, training, and proof — in one deployment.
- HALO evacuation chairsOne per guest-floor stairwell — the manual Swift for a typical tower, the powered Power where a high-rise needs ascent as well as descent.
- ProMove transfer slingsSo your night crew can move a guest who can't self-transfer into the chair — safely, with dignity, without lifting.
- Hands-on staff trainingEvery shift practices with the real equipment on your actual stairs — certified and logged.
- Outpost Go-Bag & SunCaseStaged at the front desk / fire command point: light, gloves, route-marking, and backup power that keeps a Power chair and comms running.
- Quarterly drillsScheduled, documented drills that keep the capability real between inspections.
- 12-month audit logThe binder an ADA reviewer, fire marshal, or insurer asks for — dates, names, serials, signatures.
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The obligation, the highlights, and a stairwell-readiness checklist — on one page you can forward to your team. We'll email it now.
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The ADA expects a way down for every mobility-impaired guest — a chair in each guest-floor stairwell is the baseline.
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