'I'm just shocked in this day and age when you think there's a bit more disability awareness.'
A woman has spoken of her anger after her father, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, was left on a fire escape during a fire drill at IKEA's Belfast store."They had no clue at all," Fionnuala told Belfast Live."I'm just shocked in this day and age when you think there's a bit more disability awareness, with a massive chain like that."
"There was a little box which said to touch it for help so we did that and a member of staff came along. However, that posed problems for Fionnuala's dad, who has health complications due to a brain injury. "And the guy said they had an evacuation chair, but it was new and no-one in the store had actually been trained on it, so the fire service would have needed to get you down."No-one had any training, no-one had any clue what to do and you were just going to leave us out in the cold."
"We don't take him out to many places because it can be quite difficult with him but you expect a big chain like that to be a bit more aware.An IKEA Belfast Spokesperson said: "The safety of our customers and co-workers is always our highest priority at IKEA.
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