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Firefighters respond to elevator emergency at City HallRichmond VA

audio iconMedical Emergency
Near E Broad St, Richmond, VA 23219

Fire department and elevator technicians are responding to an emergency at City Hall where people may be trapped inside an elevator shaft. They are working to access the elevator and rescue those inside.

Audio|Source: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
02:43
Transcript:
00:00
One from City of Oklahoma, Mayor.
00:04
Go ahead.
00:08
Go ahead. Yeah, I've got an update.
00:11
No, I got a power shot off to the car.
00:14
Seems like it moved between the power cycle.
00:20
Currently seems to be at the mezzanine. I'm just working between floors.
00:23
Just give me a couple more minutes.
00:28
Grabber.
00:33
Engine 1B from Engine 1.
00:38
Go ahead, Inj1.
00:42
Just stay in the room up there with the elevator tech.
00:45
Trying to get access to the mezzanine right now, security.
00:50
Security features of the building.
00:54
We'll be back to you in a second.
01:00
The intersection of Lamont and Brooklyn Parkland until we advise to be executed.
01:07
Received,
01:09
(number withheld).
01:14
Attempt to raise the elevator to the lobby of floor three.
01:23
Do you want to be advised the elevator tech that he was making its way down to you and it's no longer in the elevator room?
01:34
Go ahead.
01:38
People are in a blind shaft.
01:40
The mezzanine access was not the car we needed access to.
01:43
The elevator technician is going to try and move the car from the elevator room up top.
01:54
Copy.
01:57
First from City Hall command.
02:01
City Hall of Command. City Hall Command?
02:06
We'll make this a working incident. We're good with the resources we have right now.
02:12
Understood.
02:13
Working incident, declared (number withheld).
02:20
Engine 1 from Engine 1, Bravo.
02:24
Go ahead.
02:27
Is the elevator tech down there with you? Last, he was up here, he said he was making his way down to the third floor.
02:34
Yeah,
02:38
I make contact with the lesson back to you.
02:42
Copy.

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Location mentioned:
Near E Broad St, Richmond, VA 23219
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Incident Timeline

  1. Final Checks and Incident Under Control
  2. Elevator Car Lowered; Incident De-escalates
  3. Elevator Technician Engaged; Rescue Operations Begin
  4. Units Arrive and Assess Situation
  5. Incident Dispatched: Elevator Emergency at City Hall

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