Power Outage
Historic Spain and Portugal Power Outage Affects Elevators
A power outage in Spain and Portugal on April 28, which is the worst blackout in Spain’s recent history, led to more than 600 reports of people being trapped in...
Firefighters Respond to 79 Elevator Incidents in Kuwait City During Power Outage
Firefighters in Kuwait City, Kuwait, responded to 79 elevator malfunction complaints during a power outage on June 19, mostly involving passengers trapped inside units, the Arab Times reports. No injuries...
Brief Power Outage in NYC Causes Elevator Entrapments
A brief power outage caused by a high-voltage piece of electrical equipment short circuiting at a Con Edison substation in Brooklyn, NY, shortly before midnight on December 14 caused “serious...
Increased Power Outages Cause Elevator Issues in Ukraine
Nearly 10 months into the war in Ukraine, Russia’s large-scale missile barrages, along with smaller localized attacks targeting substations, transformers and electrical nodes across Ukraine have been crippling, resulting in...
Wide Power Outage Traps Elevator Riders In Kyrgyzstan
Several dozen apartment-building residents in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, were trapped in elevators after regional power was shut down in the city, The Moscow Times reported on January 26. Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, was...
