Back in 2000 I was going to see a head hunter in NYC. The office was on the 40th floor in an older building near Times SQ. I had the interview then go into an express elevator for the ride down with two women.
We got past all the floors the car would open at and were between openings whenthe elevator stopped running. At first we thought nothing much of this, but then an hour past and we were still stuck. We had been able to contact the lobby via the intercomand they told us that all the elevators had gone out! Well the FDNY Rescue 1 guys showed up and tried to get the car to move. One was shouting about releasing the emergency brake when the older woman, Joan, started screaming at him to leave that G-D emergency brake alone! What they ended up doing was sledgehammering an opening in the shaft as close to us as possible. We then had to climb out as the opening was about six feet above the car, leaving us a small gap to crawl through.

When we came out, we were interviewed by the local news. It turns out that we were in there for almost four hours!

I still keep in touch with Joan, who worked for the head hunter and got me a nice job! If only we had been alone all that time... She also moved her office to the second floor!

On a sad note, the guys who rescued us were among the ones who ran into the Twin Towers a year later...

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