Boston firefighters used ropes and harnesses to rescue a man trapped an elevator shaft, lifting him to safety on the 21st ...

This course begins with a didactic one-hour lecture about safety in and around elevator equipment and an introduction to safely handling an elevator emergency. Participants are then rotated through ...

The individual was stuck above the 7th floor with no means of accessing it from one of the landing doors. With the elevator's ...

According to the department, the man was trapped at the lower level of a so-called “blind” elevator shaft, another name for an express elevator with doors only on certain floors.

Eleven people were rescued on Friday after getting stuck in an elevator in a Cambridge hi-rise. At about 6 p.m. on Friday, the Cambridge Fire Department responded to the elevator rescue in a hi-rise ...