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Jun. 21, 2008
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Four stuck in elevator at Paris LV

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An elevator cable at Paris Las Vegas snapped about noon on Friday, trapping four occupants inside the elevator for about an hour.

Firefighters were called to the scene about 12:30 p.m. to rescue the occupants, according to Clark County Fire Department spokesman Scott Allison.

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    • Allison said the four people got onto the elevator about noon on the 30th floor of the 34-floor hotel. As the elevator descended, the cable snapped and the elevator suddenly dropped about two feet before the braking system caught it.

    He said the drop wasn't violent.

    "It's not like it threw them up in the air or anything," he said.

    The elevator then automatically lowered itself to around the 14th and 15th floors, and firefighters were able to open the elevator shaft and get the occupants out. Firefighters then found the snapped cord lying on top of the elevator.

    A 60-year-old woman inside the elevator complained of lower back pain but wasn't hospitalized. No one else was injured, Allison said.



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    FleaStiff wrote on June 23, 2008 03:54 AM: How do eight separate cables fail simultaneously?

    How would an overspeed sensor be tripped with a fall of only two feet? If the brake shoes had stopped the elevator how could it 'descend automatically' to some other floor?

    If serious problems were detected do you really think the equipment is designed to allow continued movement of the elevator cab?


    ryan wrote on June 21, 2008 11:11 PM: How does one cable snap and cause the whole elevator to fall? Elevators have more than one cable. As the previous poster Mark said there needs to be a far more thorough reporting of this story by someone who understands that elevators aren't pulled up by a rope tied around a woolly mammoth like the Flinstones.


    Mark wrote on June 21, 2008 02:15 PM: There should be four steele cables not one. Any one cable can support the car with strength to spare.
    If the drop was fast enough for the overspeed governor to set the rail brakes, the car would be locked on the rails with no way to move(down). It would therefore be impossible for the car to lower itself to the fifteenth floor. (I thought the cables snapped!)
    There needs to be a further investigation by people who actually know how elevators work.


    Huh? wrote on June 21, 2008 09:14 AM: Two feet? The first reports said 15 stories?!?!


    Frank wrote on June 21, 2008 08:25 AM: Do I smell a law suit? Where is Glenn Lerner when you need him?


    Tubby wrote on June 21, 2008 06:44 AM: That's what happens when you over indulged at those Vegas buffets'