Have you ever responded to an elevator entrapment? Did you have a plan or procedure to follow, or did you rely on the elevator technician’s response? Have you ever had to rely on force to overcome ...

Perhaps I'm alone in having fond associations with elevator entrapments. Just how alone became apparent the other day when I boarded the elevator on the 10th floor and it abruptly stopped halfway to ...

A Dial-A-Ride driver was the unlucky person who became trapped Friday afternoon in the elevator in Brainerd City Hall. Jeff Hulsether, city engineer, said the driver entered the elevator about 2:30 ...

The brand-new elevators at the Clark Street stop are up to the old lifts’ tricks — leaving riders trapped inside just months after the MTA closed the Brooklyn Heights station for half a year as part ...

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WKRG) — People in Gulf Shores could start seeing big fines for false fire alarm calls and faulty elevators causing entrapment rescues. Hundreds of these types of calls tie up Gulf ...

Now that Chinese food delivery man, Ming Kung Chen, who was trapped in Bronx elevator for three days, is safe, authorities are turning their eyes on the elevators in question. There has been a long ...

CHARLOTTE — Crews from the Charlotte Fire Department rescued six people who were attending a wedding in Uptown early Sunday morning. Firefighters responded to an elevator entrapment call shortly after ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - Firefighters were on the scene of an elevator entrapment at the Drury Plaza Hotel on Friday, March 29. According to Asst. Chief Hasheider, 4 people were rescued from an ...