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Dog escapes elevator disaster:
The man was left praying his beloved pooch was OK after leaving it on the wrong side of a lift door.
The security camera feed shows the owner walking his dog to the lift and waiting outside.
When it arrives the man quickly walks into it but his 18-month-old bulldog cross stays stationary after being distracted by a woman in the hallway.
Toddler dangles in elevator shaft…
The parents of a toddler who became trapped and was dangling in an elevator shaft for 15 minutes say they can not believe their son survived the terrifying ordeal.
William, believed to be about 18 months old, was playing with other children in the two-storey building on Thomas Street in Dandenong when he managed to get into the space between the elevator and elevator shaft last night.
William’s cousin was forced to hold onto the boy’s left arm for about 15 minutes before Country Fire Authority crews rescued him dangling about six metres above the bottom of the lift shaft.
A need for fire sensors in all elevators:
Investigators say a deadly weekend high-rise fire in Lakeview spread because a couple propped open their apartment door so the family cat could escape.
The fire started in the couple’s apartment at 3130 N. Lake Shore Dr., and though they escaped with their dog, they left open their door for their cat. The building’s doors are designed to close automatically.
Building resident Shantel McCoy died in the fire when she rode the elevator to the 12th floor and authorities say when the doors open, she overcome by heat, fumes and smoke from the fire in the hallway.
The accident should never have happened, a leading elevator consultant said today. Charles Buckman, a 56-year veteran of the elevator industry, said a national engineering safety code requires elevators to have fire sensors on every floor and in the motor room.
Read full story here: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/chicago-fire-death-highlights-elevator-hazards/
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Bogota, Colombia builds outdoor escalator for residents…
For generations, the 12,000 residents of Medellin’s tough Comuna 13, which clings to the side of a steep hillside, have had to climb hundreds of large steps authorities say is the same as going up a 28-story building.
Now they can ride an escalator Medellin’s mayor says is the first massive, outdoor public escalator for use by residents of a poor area.
“It turned out very well,” said Mayor Alonso Salazar, adding that he has not heard of any such project elsewhere in this world.
