[nagdu] Fw: Emergency plane evacuation

[JULIE PHILLIPSON]

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Julie Phillipson
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From: "JULIE PHILLIPSON" <jbrew48 at verizon.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Emergency plane evacuation


> Tracy I've often thought about that and thought it would be a good thing 
> to do.  Perhaps if we could get an airline to cooperate this would be a 
> project that NAGDU could take on.
>
> Julie Phillipson
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:54 PM
> Subject: [nagdu] Emergency plane evacuation
>
>
>> Listening to news reports of yesterday's emergency plane evacuation in 
>> the
>> Hudson River, I was wondering how such things work with a guide dog.  The
>> news said people were holding onto the plane's wing, and some got soaking
>> wet.  I was wondering how I would have done it with Ben.
>> The plane talks always mention a slide.  I've wondered about that, too.
>> I know, some years back, some Federationists did a mock plane evacuation
>> to demonstrate that blind people could do it as efficiently as sighted
>> people.  I'm sure I could do it too.  I'd just like to have some idea,
>> beforehand if possible, what it's like so I could figure out a good way 
>> to
>> work it with Ben.
>> Anyone have any more experience with it than I do?
>> I wonder if it might be useful to arrange a mock evacuation, with guide
>> dogs, maybe during convention or something?  I know Margo and Julie P 
>> have
>> been doing a lot of work in New York, figuring out how emergency workers
>> could work with guide dog users during a chemical contamination 
>> emergency.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
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