Abstract: In order to reduce accident casualties, reduce external rescue pressure, by summarizing the cases and rescue experience of coal mine thermodynamic disasters, the concept of escape is defined as victims escape from the disaster areas by using of self-saving knowledge and skills on the help of mine evacuation systems and under heavy psychological stress. The environment and situation of disaster area, mine evacuation systems and escape ability of victims are main influence factors on thermodynamic disaster escape. Among them, the environment and situation of disaster area is the scene and response of self-evacuation. The mine escape risk system is an auxiliary facility to obtain disaster information, way-finding, supply, avoiding risk and ensuring life safety, and it is also the key to improve the efficiency of rescue and external rescue. The escape ability is the core element that the personnel in distress rationally use the mine escape safety system to deal with the extreme cataclysm environment.