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18 people stuck in Nanjing elevator don’t think to call emergency number for help
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EIGHTEEN people crammed into an elevator were trapped yesterday morning in an office building in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, but no one thought to dial an emergency number for help, today’s Modern Express reported.
The door finally was opened by the property’s maintenance personnel, freeing the trapped people about 40 minutes after the elevator’s malfunction in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
The incident started about 8:25am yesterday when office workers rushed into the elevator before work. The lift had a listed capacity of 13 people, but the alarm did not sound despite the overloading, the report said.
Just after the door closed, however, the elevator would not move and the door would not open. Some of those trapped used their cell phones to post what happened on Wechat, a leading social media tool.
But no one noticed a sign in the elevator, which gives an emergency number of 96333. No one tried calling the property management company, either, despite some of the women being quite upset.
Residents trapped in elevators are encouraged to call a local emergency center that was launched last year and so far has rescued 8,678 trapped people in Nanjing. The average wait time is 11.31 minutes for rescue workers to arrive at the scene.
Overloading is believed the cause of yesterday’s incident.
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