D.C. Fire and EMS crews rescued the Smith family — two parents and their 1-year-old — after they got stuck in an elevator at ...

ATLANTA — Atlanta firefighters don’t only respond to put out flames; when two children became trapped in an elevator, they came to the rescue. Officials say the children got trapped in a stalled ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — The New Bedford Fire Department has been awarded $68,000 in federal grant funds to boost training on rescuing people from stalled elevators. The department will bring in ...

Wichita Falls firefighters had a tricky rescue situation on their hands Sunday night. The fire department responded to a call in an old grain elevator on Lee Street, according to the department's ...

Boston firefighters used ropes and harnesses to rescue a man from an elevator shaft inside an office building. Photos posted on social media by the department show members of technical rescue ...

A man trapped in an express elevator shaft was rescued by specially trained Boston firefighters who hoisted him 70 feet to freedom, the department said. The incident played out late Thursday night at ...

Three friends have gone viral after they got stuck in an elevator—but the ending made it all worth it. Juls (@juls.lexington), 24, from Philadelphia, was heading back to her apartment after a fun ...

A hospital employee was rescued by rope after an elevator malfunctioned Sunday at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was a complicated rescue but resulted in no injuries, the Ann ...

A freighter ran aground in the Detroit River near the Renaissance Center on Thanksgiving morning, 2025. Canadian freighter refloated after running aground in Detroit River on Thanksgiving morning Read ...

DALLAS — Crews with Dallas Fire-Rescue (DFR) rescued 15 people associated with the Los Angeles Chargers -- both players and members of the team's traveling party -- who were trapped in an elevator at ...

A woman trapped in an elevator in a Town Center-area building Wednesday afternoon was rescued after a pair of firefighters rappelled down an elevator shaft from the ninth floor to reach the elevator ...