Abstract: An escape and rescue device used in a multistory building during a terrorist threat or a fire to: a) evacuate a person or persons attached to a plunger shaped body lowered from an upper level of a building through a vertical tube, by using two different pressures, a lesser pressure at the entrance of the tube and a higher pressure at the exit of the tube, using air tight compartments and doors at one or both sides of the tube or by artificial air pressure, thereby permitting the fast evacuation of many people in a short time, b) it can be used by fireman in training in its use and benefits, c) also at amusement parks, where there would be a ride that would teach the users about its reliability and safety, and d) to transport firemen in a fast way from the ground to the upper floors without interfering with the evacuation in process at the stairways of the building.