The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters had to climb eight feet down a ladder in an elevator shaft around 4 a.m. to help free 13 people stuck in an elevator at 500 Border St.
A big problem with this rescue was the 13 people trapped were loud, boisterous and uncooperative. Early in the incident, a person called the fire dispatch and claimed there was a pregnant woman about to give birth on the elevator. This dangerous claim was an attempt to get rescued quicker. It was only when firefighters reached the elevator roof that this proved false.
The department says the elevator got stuck between the third and fifth floors - the building has no door on the fourth floor. Firefighters on the fifth floor lowered a ladder and one firefighter in a safety harness climbed down and opened the roof hatch. Firefighters then lowered another ladder into the elevator and had the trapped people climb up to the fifth floor on that.
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