Empire State Buildingone of the most famous skyscrapers in the world as a business, cinematographic and tourist icon, experienced an unusual episode of panic yesterday, when several people were trapped in one of its elevators.
The elevator got stuck around 6:11 pm on Thursday, February 29 near the 48th floor with seven adults inside, according to the NYPD. No one inside was injured, but the FDNY rescue took almost an hour.: All the occupants were able to leave shortly before 7:00 p.m., he explained. Pix11. Other press versions say that The rescue was from the 16th or 20th floor.
Officials did not give a reason why the elevator got stuck, and it is also unclear whether they were tourists, people who work in the tower or corporate visitors.
FDNY said that special units had to respond and pull people through the roof of the elevator and transfer them to a second elevator who brought them safely down to the hall explained to CBS News the chief of the fire battalion, Stephen Tanzosh.
The Empire State Building is an Art Deco skyscraper 102 floors in Midtown Manhattan, New York. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built between 1930 and 1931. Its name means “Imperial State”, the nickname of the state of New York.
The building has a total height of 443.2 m (1,454 ft), including the antenna. It was the tallest building in the world until the first World Trade Center tower was completed in 1970.. After the attacks of September 11, 2001, it was once again the tallest in New York City until it was surpassed in 2012 by One World Trade Center. It is currently the 7th tallest skyscraper in Manhattan, but it is undoubtedly still the most famous and legendary.
2024-03-01 20:09:00
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