This weekend saw a 53 year old woman many people’s nightmare: She was stuck in the elevator. Not just in a few hours, but for several days.
stuck in three nights,
Monday morning, she was rescued out of a lift in a fasjonal apartment building on Manhattan in New York city. The woman worked in the building, and was stuck in the elevator from Friday night, writes ABC News.
the Landlord was out of town all weekend, and the woman had not with him the phone her when she went into the elevator. The woman was also alone at home for the weekend, and thus there was no one who noticed that she was stuck in the elevator.
It was the house owners, Warren and Harriet, Stephen, who notified the fire department that the lift stood. The fire department was forced up the doors on the elevator, which stood between the second and third floor, and there they found the woman. It must be stated, not whether the house owners knew that the woman was in the elevator when they notified the fire department.
home owners writes in a press release Monday that the woman has worked for them for 18 years. A member of the family was also with her when she was brought to the hospital.
She must have been dehydrated, but otherwise in good shape.
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When it comes to the lift had been carried out an inspection as late as July of last year, and then everything was in perfect order, writes the New York Times.
But now want the authorities to inspect the elevator again. The question is whether the lift was equipped with a telephone or a nødknapp. According to bygningsetaten in New York to all lifts that are not continuously monitored by the people have nødknapper or a telephone so that people who are stuck in the elevator can turn the alarm.
– the Cause of this unfortunate incident is being investigated. Appropriate measures will be taken to avoid this type of incidents happening again, said the statement from the house owners.
Man was stuck for three days
It belongs undoubtedly to the sjeldenhetene that people get stuck in a lift over several days, but as late as in October last year, it happened in Sweden.
At half past seven-the time in the morning 1. October discovered a person who would take a lift in Alby centre south west of Stockholm that it was stuck between two floors. He called the emergency number, and then they got the lift running again, they discovered a man in the 50 years.
the Man was so battered that it was difficult to have a conversation with him. He had probably been in the elevator since the Friday before.
Found the man in the lift. He has been sitting there since Friday No one heard the alarm,
Just as dramatic was it to Nicholas White, who was stuck in a lift in a 205 m and 51 floors high skyscraper in New York city.
White had been out and taken a smoke when he should take the elevator back to the office to finish work before the weekend.
– On the way up to my floor, I felt suddenly a twitch, whereupon the lights almost disappeared for a small second. I quickly realized that the elevator had stopped, so I pressed on the alarm, wrote White in 2009 in a text that was published in several newspapers.
the Problem to the White, he was stuck in an express chairlift, and therefore, there was no stopping places before the 39. floor. The sudden stop occurred in ingemannsland in the large building. In addition, it happened in 11-time Friday night.
the White pressure on the alarmknappen, but the alarm was located at the top of the lift, and with such a great distance to the nearest top and bottom stop, did not alarm for a great many other than White.
After 41 hours was the nightmare suddenly over, when a security guard spotted the White on the surveillance camera.
After that Nicholas was stuck in the elevator for 41 hours, his life was destroyed Dagbladet Plus
