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Fire in Elevator Shaft Leads to Discovery of Body
Firefighters responded on February 4 to a fire outbreak in the elevator shaft of the International Congress Centrum (ICC) in Berlin, Germany, The Munich Eye reports. The fire was extinguished swiftly, but...
Deadly Apartment Fire Leaves Elevators Waterlogged
Residents of 35 Brock Street, one of the Marina Towers, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, were without operational elevators for at least 24 h due to a fatal fire that occurred...
Elevator Construction May Have Started Rubbish Fire in L.A. Building
More than 80 firefighters extinguished a fire in a 12-story office building in L.A. that may have ignited when sparks from renovation construction in the elevator shaft fell into a...
Four Detroit High Rises Account for 15% of Elevator Calls
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....
JFK Airport Escalator Fire Send Four to the Hospital
An escalator fire at New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport at approximately 7 a.m. on July 24 sent four people to the hospital to treat minor injuries from...
MEI-Total Elevator Solutions Investigating Fire at Minnesota HQ
An early morning fire on March 14 at the Mankato, Minnesota headquarters (HQ) of MEI-Total Elevator Solutions resulted in no injuries, as multiple fire departments responded to the blaze, which...
Elevator Room Fire Put Out at Seattle’s Space Needle
In the early hours of February 23, Seattle, Washington’s Space Needle was scorched by a minor blaze. The fire took hold in an elevator control room located at the top...
