This one could go in our “Why Didn’t Someone Already Think of That?” File. An Israeli inventor, Eliyahu Nir, has come up with a way of getting people out of the windows of burning buildings by using a spiral-tube slide which can be raised and lowered on an extendible boom.
We won’t go so far as to say that it could make fire escaping fun, but it’s certainly a lot less frightening than having to jump onto a inflatable bull’s eye or being pulled up into a helicopter.