safe rooms
Fortified hiding spaces
Safe rooms are fortified spaces within buildings designed to protect occupants during emergencies—home invasions, tornadoes, or active shooter situations.
A residential safe room might be a reinforced closet with a steel door; schools and offices may have designated rooms with locks and barricades.
She hid in the safe room until police arrived.
- alarm systemsDevices detecting unauthorized entry
- hidden doorDisguised access point
- secret passageConcealed route through structure
- motion detectorsDevices sensing physical activity
- surveillance camerasVideo monitoring equipment
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Locations where harm threatens
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Sealed execution spaces using poison
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Confined inmate chambers
jail cells · solitary confinement · detention cells · cages · lockups
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