life net
jumping sheet

Indeed, the life net cushions a person from death itself.

Among them were four girls who held onto each other when they jumped into a life net.

The other band members open a life net for him but it ends up ripping.

Upon their arrival, the fire department used a life net to help people escape, but not everyone could be saved.

He motioned fiercely for a life net to be brought into position below.

Life nets held by firefighters broke when the terrified women jumped in groups of three and four.

The pottery life netted $15,000 last year (this year is going much better).

Many examples of life nets are on display in firefighting historical museums.

Time was also lost because some people threw their luggage in the life net and then jumped into it themselves, causing injuries.

"There aren't any life nets along this line."

Firefighters once used a device called a Life net which allowed people in burning buildings to jump to safety.

"There isn't a life net made, nor men who could retain it, to hold up a person jumping from the tenth story," said her uncle.

Life nets often failed to save people, and sometimes firefighers themselves were injured or killed by falling bodies.

The tower of the building was also used in training with life nets and use of tall fire ladders.

- many photos of life nets in use

"We can leap into the life nets."

As late as 1961, though, the Chicago Fire Department still emphasized the life net in its training programs.

The trampoline-like life nets once used by firemen to catch people jumping out of burning buildings were invented in 1887.

He obtained additional patents for improvements to the life net in 1900, and later also patents in Europe.

Among its advantages were that the life net was always taut when open, never slackened, and had a setup time of only two to three seconds.

On November 10, 1904, three people were saved when they jumped into a life net during a fire in New York City.

Get the life net!"

Perched in the gaping hole his ax had smashed, The Shadow waited for the life net to be spread below.

He became a school teacher, and later moved to Greenfield, Ohio, where he invented and patented the life net in 1887.

If successful, the player advances to a fire rescue challenge, in which Ren and Stimpy catch falling objects on a life net.

A life net, also known as a Browder Life Safety Net or jumping sheet, is a type of rescue equipment formerly used by firefighters.