Freedom Tower Features Attack Precautions
NEW YORK (AP) - The newest plan for the Freedom Tower at the former World Trade Center site features a more bomb-resistant design pushed well away from the street and incorporating heavily protected elevators and utilities.
It also has the original design's extra-wide emergency stairs, a dedicated staircase just for firefighters, enhanced elevators and "areas of refuge" on each floor. Stairs, communications, sprinklers and elevators will be encased in 3-foot-thick walls.
I wonder if they could install one of those spiral slides next to the stairways for for faster exiting during an emergency situation. No offense, but when an airplane slams into a building where I work, I want to get the heck out of there ASAP.