East Harlem elevator’s weight limit exceeded
Firefighters were forced to break through a wall inside an East Harlem NYCHA building Sunday to extract a “large patient” stuck inside an elevator, the FDNY said.
The person became trapped between the first and second floors of an East River Houses building around 4 p.m. – and it took about two hours for firefighters to extract him through a hole about the size of a 42-inch flat-screen TV, officials and neighbors said.
He was traveling down from the 10th floor with a smaller man and a washing machine, apparently triggering the elevator’s 1,000-pound limit, according to a repair worker at the scene, who wouldn’t give his name. READ MORE
