VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — 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 car, the Virginia Beach Fire Department said.
After getting the call of a stalled elevator in the Armada Hoffler Building on Central Drive at 2:16 p.m., crews arrived less than two minutes later and upgraded the call to a technical rescue incident that involved a person trapped in the elevator just above the first floor, the fire department said.
Crews did not find an accessible entry point to the elevator car between the first and ninth floors, and, due to the elevator’s location, they were not able to use standard methods to get inside of it, the fire department said.
With the help of the fire department’s technical rescue team, two firefighters rappelled down the elevator shaft from the ninth floor to reach the elevator car, with the operation done under “controlled and secure conditions,” the fire department said…