A®9 - Sunday, March 11, 1984 - North Shore News

FOR TWO AND A HALF HOURS

24 were trapped in elevator

WHEN A pre-grad party on the observation deck _ the doors again did not open.
of Harbor Centre in Vancouver got out of hand, For two hours the clevator
20-year-old Bruno Delmaestro of North Vancouver € and fell along ¢

: : - building, pausing for a few
decided that it was time to leave.

minutes at the top or bottom
By MARK HAMILTON “*When the elvator first got

before moving on again.
to the bottom, it stopped but After 30 minutes it was so
the doors didn’t open,” hot, Delmaestro said, they
He and a handful of Detmaestro said. ‘“‘After a

were trying to break the glass

friends battled there way past few minutes it started to go windows and roof to let air
a number of fights on the back up.”’ in.
observation deck to the glass- Deimaestro said his first The group finally managed

fronted elevator that would
provide the way out.

Delmaestro and 23 other
-people- crowded -into - the. .
elevator. And that’s where
they spent the next two and a
half hours.

thought was that the elevator to get air circulating when
was being sent back up four of them pulled open the
because of a number of fights doors far enough for a
foot of the tower. But they them, leaving a one-inch gap.
Started to worry when the Two girls who were suffer-

elevator reached the top and ing from claustrophia were

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seated on the floor in front of spokesman said. 24 of them in an elevator for

the doors as Delmaestro and Delmaestro is still upset two and a half hours.’’
a few friends spent much of about the incident. He
their time trying to calm _ charges the security staff

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others.

The group was able to
reach tower security and
maintenace staff over the
telephone in the elevator but
that didn’t help.

**We were on the phone for
two hours and they kept say-
ing it would only take a cou-
ple of minutes,’’ Delmaestro
said.

While the crowd in the_
elevator was attempting to
convince them of the scope of
the emergency, the security
people were saying things like
*“If there’s any vandalism in
there, we’re going to charge
you all,’’ Delmaestro said.

Delmaestro also said that
about half way through their
ordeal, a number of those in
the elevator gave their names
and telephone numbers to
security staff so parents
could be notified that they
were all right.

*‘No phone calls were
made,’’ Dalmaestro said.

The 24 were finally freed
from the elevator two and a
half hours after they had got
in.

Security staff at Harbour
Centre said the problem was
caused by a faulty switch.

‘Apparently the kids were
fooling around with the
emergency stop button,’’ a

were less than helpful in dea!l-
ing with the situation.
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