Volume 4
May 2016 Edition
Bearacade for Classroom Safety
Bearacade Door Control System
Bearacade Door Control
System to be featured in
a special documentary on
“Voices In America” hosted
by James Earl Jones. This
program educates and communicates the most crucial
stories through its documentaries.
Bearacade Door Control
System is a device that fits
on interior doors to prevent a door from opening in either direction and provides protection to individuals from a hostile intruder. Due to the increasing amount of school shootings, this device is adding security and protection to many school districts.
The focus of the documentary will be on the origination, manufacturing and use of Bearacade lockdown response systems
and will give an inside look at the system in action at Hudson
City School District. (View Youtube video on the Bearacade
lockdown response system here.) Bill Cushwa, Bearacade
Founder and CEO
“I would like to extend a special thank you to the City of Hudson,
Hudson City School District, Hattie Larlham, Design Molded
Plastics and everyone who
contributed to this documentary,” said Bill Cushwa,
Bearacade Founder and
CEO. “It is with great pride
to introduce this product to
school districts and add to
the safety of individuals.”
Bearacade Door Control
Dave Soulsby, Bearacade Founder and CEO System’s has been touted
by both police and school superintendents as being fast, effective and easily identifiable. The unit features a reflective
External Notification Panel™ to alert and guide administrators
and safety forces that the device is deployed. Once in place,
the patent-pending Bearacade® can withstand 4,800 pounds
of external force.
Bearacade Door Control System was developed as a response
to the inability to effectively barricade classrooms during hostile
situations. Bearacade provides an added layer of school safety,
in addition to standard lockdown procedures like ALICE training. If evacuation is not possible, taking shelter-in- place and
utilizing Bearacade is much more effective and safer than trying to create a make-do blockade.
The documentary will begin airing across the country on
PBS.
Created and produced in Ohio by state natives Bill Cushwa and
Dave Soulsby following the tragic events of the 2012 Chardon
High School shooting, Bearacade Door Control System was
developed as a device intended to slow or prevent a door from
being opened. Bearacade is designed for the rare, short-duration moments of a hostile intruder when it’s safer to take shelter
than evacuate. The Bearacade Door Control System is the only
device that has external notification for police and emergency
services personnel to know who has been barricaded or not.
For more information about Bearacade or to see how the system works, please visit doorbearacade.com.
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