Four Detroit High Rises Account for 15% of Elevator Calls

Kamper Stevens Apartments for senior citizens; image courtesy of apartments.com

Over the past year, four high rises housing low-income residents accounted for 15% of all emergency calls about broken elevators to the Detroit Fire Department, Outlier Media reports, citing WDIV. The television station conducted an investigation in the wake of an August fire at the 22-story Kamper Stevens Apartments for senior citizens in which an 86-year-old woman died. All but one of the tower’s three elevators “had long been out of order” at the time. Besides Kamper Stevens, the other three high-rises with the most elevator emergency calls were the 21-story Washington Boulevard Apartments, the 12-story Bicentennial Tower and the 10-story Young Manor.

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