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From the files of our worst nightmares: ten people, six adults and four children, got trapped inside the elevator at the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metro station this afternoon, according to D.C. Fire/EMS. The call came in around 2:45 p.m., and units from the high angle rescue team are now on the scene and working to get them out - the elevator is reportedly stuck halfway down the elevator shaft. We'd like to buy all of these folks an ice cream cone once they get out of there.
Let's hope the A/C is working.
Updated at 4:30 p.m. with a photo taken of the rescue effort by a reader
4:50 p.m. All ten people have been safely rescued from the elevator. Phew.
With a tip of the hat to Washingtonian editor Garrett Graff, we're reminded that this particular elevator has a long history of trapping people. In 2006, five people had to be rescued from the Woodley Park elevator after being stuck in the elevator shaft for about two hours, and back in 1991, a mechanic had to be assigned to the elevator, along with the one at Cleveland Park, full time because it was trapping people inside it so often.
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Uggh, just imagine smelling that wonderful Metro elevator smell for multiple hours...
This is why I've abandoned Metro for the life of a glorified hobo (MARC commuter)
That's nothing. They've got a couple days to go to top this guy:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/2008/04/21/080421_elevators
They are still there??!! Terrible
You know that at least one of the little kids (and probably an adult or two) have peed themselves by now. Yeesh.
Nightmare? Subtract the four children and add 6 American Apparel models and you've got my favorite fantasy.
Aren't you forgetting about Banita?
No, I'm not forgetting Banita. She's only my second favorite fantasy.
Can someone please pull her mugshot off the front page? She keeps staring at me with those dead eyes like some sort of homicidal lunatic Kilroy.
Comment o'the day right here.
This pales in comparison to the 5 hours i once got stuck on an escalator. It was sheer horror......
sure i bet that RAN to the elevator, but couldnt stand or walk up the escalator. That is what you get for being a fatty and not taking the stairs. (handicap/bikers/children excluded)
That picture doesnt look too good, i hope they are OK!
Damn, I don't envy those people. Most likely there isn't A/C because metro A/C doesn't work half the time. And its hot out so I'm sure there's LOTSA b.o. in there! Yeuuughhh!
*Hugs!
Would be nice if DCist would spring for an ice cream cone for each of them, instead of one for all of them.
Edit o'the day, right here.
Complimentary comment o'the day, right here.
they will have bonded by then and want to share everything.
Just the fact that we have a high angle rescue team is pretty badass. And multiple units of it, at that.
I wonder if they're also trained in low and steep angle rescue. I'd imagine so. I think this sort of emergency rescue offering exists in any city with an elevator, or so we would expect :)
You do realize that Wizzy is exclusively responsible for training the high angle, and low and steep angle, units? She works with lots of units in that way...
you said unit. -hehehehehehe
Yeah I am laughing my ass off right now. That elevator is TOTALLY overused by lazy bitches. I'm glad someone finally got stuck in there. Maybe when I need to transport my bike or someone is in a wheel chair, they can actually use the elevator and not have to fight a throng of ill-behaved children and self-entitled jackasses. Yes, I am bitter.
And ten people - even if four are children - is still WAY too many people for the elevator. Especially if the kids are of the oft-seen super obese varietal.
And just watch, I bet like two of them will die of some hyperventilation/asthma/peanut allergy issue and I'll look like even more of a bitch for writing this.
Well unless someone does die, I'm ROFL. Someone better give them the memo about the free cupcakes. "Courtesy of the city, folks! Please come again!"
Untrue -- that elevator should hold 12 people, 13 if people suck in their guts. If you don't pack it full, then people just are forced to wait even longer.
I call bullshit on this one. You're the lazy bitch who should be riding your bike to wherever the hell you're going, not hauling it around on Metro.
reader of the rescue effort, or leader of the rescue effort. something doesn't jive with the phrase that's there now...
i meant to put a question mark at the end of that first sentence...
As it actually appears: "Updated at 4:30 p.m. with a photo taken of the rescue effort by a reader"
Which might mean: Updated at 4:30 p.m. with reader photo taken of the rescue effort.
Or perhaps: Updated at 4:30 p.m. with rescue effort taken of the reader photo.
This is probably what they really meant: Rescue updated at 4:30 p.m. with reader-taken photo effort.
Good lord. I was on that elevator the morning. And I had a prescient moment. . . was imagining what it would be like to get stuck on the elevator, given how full it was. 6 adults and 4 kids? with at least two strollers I assume? AARRGGHH claustrophobia strikes me just reading this.
that would be *this* morning. . .
To all of you thinking this is bad news, I say Nuts!
I can only guess these were tourists.
Getting stuck in the elevator kept them from standing on the left on the escalator!
I absolutely adore that we're receiving up to the minute updates, photography and tips from the real media over a dozen or so people having to wait an extra long time in an elevator.
-- plus 30 some odd oh-the-humanity that-could-have-been-me comments.
Jesus, you'd think they were all cute white girls trapped in a well or something.
Or a lost/stolen dog...
...abandoned.
Isn't anyone thinking of the children?
Why did this have to happen on National Cheesecake Day?
Oh my God those poor souls, I don't think I could stand the smell of 90 degree hooker spit and piss for more than 15 minutes let alone a few hours! Metro elevators as a whole creep me the hell out and I rarely use them if I can avoid it! *shudder* and you know there was probably some big sweaty fatty in there too, probably a screaming baby as well... yikes!
one of the many hidden costs of building metro stations three miles below the surface.