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According to Robert Stewart, president of EvacuAir Inc., the problem most people face in a house fire is that they don’t realize that what they might inhale could prove more deadly than the fire itself.

Stewart understands all too well how quickly a person can be overtaken by toxic smoke. Several years ago, he and his wife Kim lost some good friends, including their first child’s babysitter, in a house fire.

Soon after the tragedy his wife asked him to buy something that could help their family improve their chances of escaping the deadly fumes of a house fire. He searched on the Internet and in safety stores and was surprised to discover no such product existed, at least not an affordable one.

“We went to fire safety stores and they had things that cost over a hundred dollars,” he says, and those were really complicated and cumbersome. “The unit that we have invented can be operated by a child. It’s affordable, very safe, and easy to use. You can put it in your nightstand, mount it to your bedpost, or put it on your wall—it all folds up really small.”

What Stewart has come up with is the EvacuAir emergency breathing apparatus, a unique safety product that allows people to breathe while escaping environments filled with toxic smoke or gas. The inspiration came in part from a rescue diving course he had taken.