07/29/2026
At 10:27 AM, Warrington Fire was dispatched to a local business on Easton Road for the report of a stuck elevator with one person trapped inside.
On arrival, responders found the external elevator doors to be off the track.
Crews worked on numerous standard methods to extricate the subject, who was in no distress. After just under an hour of attempting multiple standard methods to release the doors, and no ETA from the elevator company, the decision was made to manually drop the hydraulic elevator to a lower floor. Crews were able to access the elevator car at the bottom floor and remove the subject, who was happy to be free!
Just under a year ago staff attended classes with Dragon Rescue Management, Inc. and gained a lot of advanced knowledge. After the class, a compliment of elevator rescue tools were added to Rescue 78 to better handle these situations. Another example of training paying off!