WHEN IT’S BELOW FREEZING OUTSIDE, you get as much done as you can indoors. In New London, Connecticut, that includes water rescues.
Sonia Eley entered an elevator in the Harris Bldg. downtown this morning and pressed the button for the third floor. When nothing happened, she pressed another button. Still nothing. So she pressed the Alarm button and things happened. They just weren’t the things that she wanted to happen.
The elevator suddenly started downward to the basement. Her next clue that something was amiss was when water started seeping between the elevator doors at the basement level. Fortunately for Sonia, the doors opened and water rushed into the elevator car from a basement that was five feet deep in it.
An 8-inch sprinkler main had broken and untold thousands of gallons of water were filling the entire basement level of the building, including the large kitchen of a catering service company. Miss Eley plowed her way over to a trash can and climbed up on it before she started screaming for help.
“I don’t know how to swim,” said Eley. “I thought for sure I was dead.” But things changed for the better for her because the New London firefighters showed up shortly after and escorted her to safety.
The New London Day has the rest of the story including what the FD did with all that water on a sub-freezing day HERE.
(One of their commentors notes that the building is managed by the Waterman Management Corp.)
Hat tip to Robert L.
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