Teacher Homemade Door Lock Fire Hose

In a matter of seconds the safety sleeve can be in place.

Teacher homemade door lock fire hose.

An iowa teacher invents a school door lock which is designed to be installed in seconds to keep dangerous intruders out of classrooms. Used fire hose pieces were delivered to graves county high school before classes started to be used as door locks. Now in her classroom of 21 students parker keeps the 6 inch piece of fire hose hanging by a magnet near the top of her classroom door. Kwqc s tiffany liou reports.

Old hose can keep classroom doors from opening. I tell the teachers enlist the. Many doors that do not have hardware that allows teachers to lock it from inside the classroom can be locked by turning a thumb turn or by pushing a button on the door. Now in her classroom of 21 students parker keeps the 6 inch piece of fire hose hanging by a magnet near the top of her classroom door.

Stung by a giant hornet. We cut them into 12 inch sections and it would fit all of the closers for the doors harrisonville fire chief eric myler said. Although this makes it easy. The door to the classroom was not locked but instead a short length of fire hose was slipped over the hydraulic arm that prevents the door from slamming.

Grant reed of rural metro fire department showed how to apply the piece of fire hose to a typical door. Utilizing the fact that most doors have door closers the training instructed teachers to tie belts or cords around the door closer to secure it. In a matter of seconds the safety sleeve can be in place. Diy repurposing decommissioned fire hose duration.

The door closer enables the door to remain open so wheelchairs could come in or also be pulled shut automatically because of the fire code. The lengths of hoses were provided to.