In Ulyanovsk the Elevator in a residential building fell together with a team of emergency and the fat lady

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В Ульяновске лифт в жилом доме сорвался вместе с бригадой скорой и тучной пенсионеркой

The investigative Committee began preliminary examination of information about the fall of an Elevator in a multistory house N15 on the street Shigaeva in Zasviyazhskiy district, Ulyanovsk with the paramedics and an elderly patient in the cabin on the morning of 25 April. By results of check the procedural decision will be made, according to regional UK.

The Minister of health of the Ulyanovsk region Pavel Degtyar reported the incident on social media, reports portal “Ulyanovsk Online” and cites this post: “Save and protect! According to preliminary information, the dispatcher, the ambulance with the patient flew in Elevator in free fall from sixth to the second floor! Colleagues and the patient is very lucky that the Elevator lurched and seized up. The rescuers arrived at the scene, promptly evacuated medical personnel and the patient. Then the ambulance delivered the patient age in the cardiology hospital”.

According to the First portal of Ulyanovsk, on the morning of 25 April, 56-year-old and 25-year-old EMT responded to a call to the 86-year-old woman having heart problems. Paramedics along with the patient and her granddaughter walked into the Elevator on the sixth floor. Suddenly there was cotton, the cabin door had time to close, and the Elevator broke down.

According to doctors, the lift was flying in a free fall for several seconds, as if something jammed, and the cab, careening, stopped between floors. This circumstance, on the one hand, may have saved were in the lift of women, and on the other, has complicated the situation, since escape was not easy. While the pensioner was even worse. After 30 minutes, the arrived rescuers rescued all the women from captivity, reported the portal.

According to the Director of maintenance the house, OOO “Volga-lift” Alexey Lazarev, the situation developed differently: “lift Capacity – 320 kg. the grandmother of the patient is corpulent, as it turned out, weighs about 130 lbs. Plus the assistants. So there was an advantage. Once it has speed limits, and there was a mechanical braking”.

Later in the press service of the regional Ministry of health confirmed the version about possible overload of lift due to the weight of the elderly patient, reports RIA “Novosti”. “Now she is in the hospital, her condition is close to satisfactory,” – said the Agency.

It is worth Recalling that the Russian government is interested in the safety of elevators after several tragic cases of death that occurred in different regions of the country in recent years. In December 2015 due to the fall of the Elevator in the apartment buildings on the Ostrovityanova street in Moscow killed ten-month-old baby. The management company was accused of the death of a child by his mother. And in early 2016 as a result of collapse of the Elevator in the elite Metropolitan complex “Scarlet sails” killed the daughter of a famous TV presenter. After that, the Ministry found that more than 10 thousand elevators in Russia are operated with violations, in 22 regions of the Russian Federation the wear of the Elevator Park is more than 50% and some 70%.

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