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Express News ServiceBENGALURU: Fire incidents growing in number in cosmopolitan cities has pressed the defence laboratory in New Delhi to develop a 50-metre emergency escape chute. The prototype of the produce which is awaiting its patent was displayed at the Pride of India Exhibition at the five-day Indian Science Congress in Bengaluru on Friday. The research and development of the chute began in 2008, he added. Diagonally places nets in these cylinders make the landing soft as the person gets bounced from one diagonal net to another. The use of chute requires no training and practice, and can be customised for helicopter-based rescue operations during landslides, floods, etc, according to DRDO..