Five people trapped in an elevator in Boston were saved in a dramatic high-rise rescue Monday night.
It took a few hours, but Boston firefighters lifted them out one-by-one, more than a dozen stories through an elevator shaft at 60 State Street.
Boston Deputy Fire Chief James Greene said the group was in a blind shaft near the third floor when the elevator stopped. A mechanic was called in but he couldn’t get the elevator moving so a technical rescue began…