7 McCarthy Tétrault Employees Spent 5 Hours in Hot Elevator Yesterday
Seven employees of McCarthy Tétrault spent more than five hours in an express elevator yesterday on one of the hottest days of the year, but no one at the well-known Canadian law firm was complaining.
The elevator was stopped around 8:30 a.m., after a repairman fell to his death down a shaft in the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower. Hence, the focus was on his family rather than the inconvenience to those stuck in the cab, reports the Am Law Daily.
For a while, firefighters considered an elaborate rescue plan for the trapped passengers because an elevator cable appeared to be damaged. But eventually the elevator, which was near the 42nd floor of the building when it was stopped, was moved up to its first stop, on the 44th floor, at about 2 p.m., and the doors were manually opened.
“Yeah, we got stuck and our day was wrecked, but the guy’s dead,” a Parss Courier messenger who was on the elevator, too, tells the Star, a Toronto newspaper. “It’s all about his family right now.”
