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Product

Baby Rescue Emergency Rapid Evacuation Device Baby Rescue Emergency Rapid Evacuation Device

Category

Home & Garden

Report number

20200402-3BD1A-2147373089

Ownership age

About 1 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20200402-3BD1A-2147373089. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Baby Rescue Emergency Rapid Evacuation Device Baby Rescue Emergency Rapid Evacuation Device (Baby Rescue Emergency Rapid Evacuation Device claims "it safely evacuates infants and small children from upper floors in case of emergency." It is a bag which will fit small children, and it is attached (weakly) to a rope that is lowered out a window in case of a fire.). Incident: WHEN I TESTED THE BABY RESCUE FIRE BAG for babies and children (which is for lowering a child down during a fire), IT BROKE AND FELL 3 STORIES. IT WILL KILL YOUR CHILD! I just tested my Baby Rescue Emergency Rapid Evacuation Device and IT SNAPPED IMMEDIATELY. If my child had been inside it would have killed him! Two hours later, I�m still shaking. Here is what happened: I wanted to test the bag before an emergency so I filled it with 22 pounds of heavy material. I wrapped the rope around my wrist about 5 feet up from the bag, braced myself, then pushed the 22 pound bag out out window. It free-fell a few feet then snapped immediately and the baby bag dropped 3 stories to the ground. Thankfully no one was walking by or it probably would have killed them. It definitely would have killed my baby inside. Note, I wanted to let it free-fall for about 5 feet as I figured this is would would happen in a true emergency. My son is 45 pounds (5 years old) and the window is on the higher side. I was trying to simulate how I would get him out of the window. I am not tall enough to lower him slowly at the beginning (even though I'm 5 foot 9 in) so I figured I'd have to put the bag on the sill, brace myself, then �push� him in the bag out the window while holding the rope or securing it around a piece of heavy furniture. Anyway, when I checked out what happened, the thread broke (which was sewn from the bag to the rope). I�ll attach pictures. Looking now, I see that the thread doesn�t look reinforced or t

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