Two teen girls were rescued from a stuck elevator at NJ Transit’s Ninth Street/Congress Street light rail station over the weekend.
It happened Saturday at 6:50 p.m. The girls, 15, were trapped in the elevator shaft for two hours after it came to a halt in the shaft about 20 feet off the ground.
Because the elevator was in the middle of the shaft, Jersey City firefighters had to rescue them from above, using high-angle rescue techniques. They rappelled 60 feet down the elevator shaft, attached harnesses to the trapped teens, and brought them up…