evacuchair

English

Etymology

From evacuate and chair.

Noun

evacuchair (plural evacuchairs)

1. A rudimentary stairchair used to transport handicapped people, and others in need, up and down stairs in an emergency usually attached to stairwells.

   What should a wheelchaired person do if he waits by the stairwell for assistance in a fire but help never comes in time to carry him down with an evacuchair?

   • 2011, Linda Reid, Deborah Shlian, Devil Wind: A Sammy Greene Thriller:

     With three of the five stairwells dedicated to stretcher cases and Evacuchairs for those needing wheelchairs, more than two hundred ambulatory patients and visitors were channeled to the remaining two, making progress down to the lobby […]