How 6 people were rescued from an elevator in a Chicago skyscraper
by Hannah Leone and Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune
Nov 17, 2018
4 minutes
CHICAGO - Firefighters had a pretty good idea how they would rescue the six people trapped in an elevator at the former John Hancock Center early Friday. But they had to find the elevator first.
The express elevator was stuck somewhere between the 95th floor and the lobby of Chicago's fourth-tallest building, one of several cables holding it broken. It was in a "blind shaft" with no openings firefighters could use to inspect the elevator or reach the people, among them tourists from Mexico, who had taken it from the Signature Room shortly after midnight.
It would take nearly three hours to safely rescue them.
The first crews on the scene checked the building's electronic
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