Imagine being locked in your home for weeks, not being able to go anywhere. That’s how some elderly people in a Cleveland apartment building said they feel all because their elevator is broken and they can’t use the stairs.
“For me, it’s scary because I am locked in,” said Wiktoria Kawecki, 92, who is a 17-year resident of the Broadway Place Elderly Apartments in the 7000 block of Broadway. She was holding back tears after the one and only elevator in her building has been out for 25 days.
“I try to walk…how you can walk on the steps with a walker?” she told us as she pointed to her walker.
Some could not stop from crying. In poor health, Olivia Thomas said because the elevator is down, she’s had to have EMS come out and help her.
“And they had to use like some kind of contraption to bring me down the stairs, you know?” she said.
About a dozen residents met with News 5 Investigators and said the repair delay has forced them to miss shopping for food and medications, and has kept them from going to medical appointments.