This shelter is located under a home in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The shelter was built as part of the original construction of the house and is located underneath the attached garage. The current homeowner is not the original owner so some details of the shelter are not known.

Entry/Blast Door.
This is the entry door to the shelter. The door opens into a closet sized concrete room. The concrete walls are 10 inches thick. The door is concrete poured into a wedge shaped metal pan with hinges. The door opens very smoothly with some effort. There is a air vent pipe coming out of the top of the entry and going up through the roof of the garage. This entry room is located at the end of the garage away from the house.

Entry Room
This is inside the entry room looking back at the closed door. The bar on the door swings up and secures with a large bolt to lock the door from the inside. The entry room is about 3 feet wide by 8 feet long on the inside.

Entry Hatch
This is the entry hatch on the floor of the entry room. The hatch is simply a metal cover that goes over the opening in the floor. There is no hinge on the cover, it just lifts up off of the entry pipe coming out of the floor. The entry door is to the immediate left.

This is looking down the entry hatch into the shelter below. You can see the curve of the shelter wall at the base of the ladder. The hole in the floor seen next to the ladder seems to be an outlet for a toilet or drain.

Go down the ladder.

See the air vents outside.

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