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We have seen many fine ideas in this contest, but often one single idea may work great in a certain context, but is unable to account for a variety of fire scenarios in a SME. In hospital departments and emergency rooms, the Crash Cart is a wheeled trolley with a curated compilation of the most indispensable lifesaving drugs and equipment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_cart ). My idea is for us, the participants and judges of this contest, to help choose what we suggest should become the SME's fire response / firefighting "crash cart." Our objective would be to choose items/ideas that can fit reasonably in a trolley, reasonably in a small business' budget, and require not a lot of training to use. A monthly supervisory audit of the contents will also be used as a "huddle" to talk fire prevention and preparedness with employees. I would like some feedback before we start setting "soft" thresholds for what the items could weigh or cost etc. I invite you to suggest ideas that you feel should be on the list. It's fine to suggest your own ideas, but as I have done in my other submissions, its great to give others credit for their suggestions, too. In no particular order, I'm including (and I plan on adding to the list below)... The fire extinguisher vest (FrequentFlyer74) Firetenty (like a fire umbrella) (SAADITHYA) ELIDE fire balls (Ryan Wilson) A box of stick-on Fire safety patch(es)? (Alex Perfiliev) Heat shields and fire shields (sarkar, i.e. I) Some direct firefighting equipment, including extinguishers (gisela) At least 4 face masks that can also filter out smoke and dangerous VOCs, A length of water hose (and a twist-to-select multi-connector for it), At least two Fire resistant suits, matching pairs of boots and gloves. Some kind of location markers, perhaps a fire resistant variant of the stick-on Amazon Dash style buttons - that can then act as beacons. Few bottles of sterile saline and a couple with soft silicone cup-like eyewash attachments, Some presterilized bandage dressings, A two-way radio with pair of spare batteries, and pre-set to the common emergency personnel radio channels; etc. etc. In case someone wonders why their excellent idea did not make the list, perhaps its because that idea might deserve to be installed or deployed on its own, without being shoved into the crash cart :-)