Taiwan Power Outages Lead To Elevator Entrapments

Regional power outages in Taiwan recently snarled traffic as emergency workers responded to calls for rescue, including those trapped in elevators, Taipei Times reports. The Taipei Department of Economic Development said that during the afternoon of March 3, 429,436 households were affected by the blackout, while 239 traffic signals were out and 49 people needed to be freed from elevators. The Taoyuan Fire Department said that 14 people were reported trapped in elevators. In Kaohsiung, 1.86 million households were affected by the blackout, 79 people were trapped in elevators, and the city’s mass rapid transit and light rail systems were suspended. The Tainan Fire Department reported 24 people trapped in elevators, with firefighters having to climb 23 floors to free one person.

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