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Downstate Medical Center
Engines: 249, 248,283,310
Trucks: Ladder 113, Ladder 174
Bn 41
R2
Sq 1
Div 15
Ladder 132 Collapse Unit
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Civilian with her leg caught between elevator car and shaft
R2 and Sq1 on scene return all other Sp units
1740 hrs Div 15 at AH box 1096 the victum has been removed
NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/12/26/2010-12-26_holiday_crush_horror_womans_leg_mangled_as_its_caught_in_elevator_shaft.html
New York Post
Gal mangles leg in hosp elevator
By ERIN CALABRESE
Last Updated: 3:36 AM, December 26, 2010
Posted: 12:10 AM, December 26, 2010
A woman was seriously injured last night after she got her leg caught between an elevator car and the shaft wall at a Brooklyn hospital, authorities said.
Firefighters and workers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in East Flatbush worked feverishly for more than an hour to free the woman on the eighth floor as she lapsed in and out of consciousness.
"We used two jaws of life to try to push the car back enough to release the leg," said FDNY Deputy Chief Wayne Cartwright.
"When we couldn't push it back far enough we ended up cutting a hole in the car."
It wasn't immediately clear whether the woman -- bleeding profusely during the ordeal -- was a visitor or employee, although hospital officials said she wasn't a patient.
They didn't know how the woman, who was rushed to Kings County Hospital, ended up in the elevator shaft shortly before 5 p.m.
It's also not clear if she was in the elevator at the time.
"She had everything that could have been done for her that was humanly possible," said Cartwright.
Additional reporting by Michael Blaustein and C.J. Sullivan
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Engines: 249, 248,283,310
Trucks: Ladder 113, Ladder 174
Bn 41
R2
Sq 1
Div 15
Ladder 132 Collapse Unit
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/7723/ladder1742002seagrave6t.jpg
Civilian with her leg caught between elevator car and shaft
R2 and Sq1 on scene return all other Sp units
1740 hrs Div 15 at AH box 1096 the victum has been removed
NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/12/26/2010-12-26_holiday_crush_horror_womans_leg_mangled_as_its_caught_in_elevator_shaft.html
New York Post
Gal mangles leg in hosp elevator
By ERIN CALABRESE
Last Updated: 3:36 AM, December 26, 2010
Posted: 12:10 AM, December 26, 2010
A woman was seriously injured last night after she got her leg caught between an elevator car and the shaft wall at a Brooklyn hospital, authorities said.
Firefighters and workers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in East Flatbush worked feverishly for more than an hour to free the woman on the eighth floor as she lapsed in and out of consciousness.
"We used two jaws of life to try to push the car back enough to release the leg," said FDNY Deputy Chief Wayne Cartwright.
"When we couldn't push it back far enough we ended up cutting a hole in the car."
It wasn't immediately clear whether the woman -- bleeding profusely during the ordeal -- was a visitor or employee, although hospital officials said she wasn't a patient.
They didn't know how the woman, who was rushed to Kings County Hospital, ended up in the elevator shaft shortly before 5 p.m.
It's also not clear if she was in the elevator at the time.
"She had everything that could have been done for her that was humanly possible," said Cartwright.
Additional reporting by Michael Blaustein and C.J. Sullivan
NEW YORK POST is a registered trademark of NYP Holdings, Inc.
nypost.com , nypostonline.com , and newyorkpost.com are trademarks of NYP Holdings, Inc.
Copyright 2010 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy | Terms of Use