THE PROBLEM (Exactly as it happens in the real world)

People die in collapses because:

• their ribcage gets compressed
• lungs can’t expand
• blood pools wrong
• pressure builds in the abdomen
• breathing becomes impossible even if the person is conscious
• moving them risks snapping ribs into organs

Most deaths happen before the rescue even begins.

Fire blankets save from heat.
Helmets save the skull.
But nothing protects the chest cavity from crushing force.

Not yet.

Time to fix it.