1/10/09 Manhattan Box 1942 - Unusual elevator rescue

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Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, NY, 1/10/09

Location: IND "F" train @ Roosevelt Island Station

Signal 7 Box 1942 - Stuck occupied elevator
L116

17:03 hours
L116: Special call an additional truck and a battalion to this box, we have a person in a stuck elevator about 8 stories below ground level, they're about 10 feet above the basement landing

17:04 hours
TL115, Rescue 4, Battalion 45 S/C

17:05 hours
TL117 w/ SSL-117 S/C replacing TL115
Tactical Support 1 S/C

17:08 hours
E260 S/C as a CFRD Engine
Squad 288 is responding

17:21 hours
Battalion 45: Box 1942, we have 4 occupants, all doing well.  We have MTA Transit elevator mechanics en-route, ETA 10 minutes.

17:25 hours
Tactical Support 1 is 10-8 back to Citywide

17:31 hours
TL117 is 10-8 back to Queens

17:46 hours
BC45: Box 1942, all occupants are out, units are in the process and will go 10-8 as they become available.


This has to be the first time I've ever heard a full SOC assignment getting special called for a stuck elevator...
 
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