{"id":4570,"date":"2018-11-20T13:16:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/chicago-lift-fall-six-survive-875-north-michigan-avenue-drama\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T13:16:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T13:16:29","slug":"chicago-lift-fall-six-survive-875-north-michigan-avenue-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/chicago-lift-fall-six-survive-875-north-michigan-avenue-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago lift fall: Six survive 875 North Michigan Avenue drama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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People trapped in a falling lift in the US city of Chicago thought they were going to die as they plummeted 84 floors to the ground.<\/p>\n

Six people, including a pregnant woman, fell from the 95th to the 11th floor in a skyscraper formerly known as the John Hancock Center early on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

They then texted friends who called the emergency services and they were freed after a three-hour ordeal.<\/p>\n

It is believed at least one cable holding the cabin broke.<\/p>\n

The group had left a bar on the 95th floor to go down to the lobby.<\/p>\n

Jaime Montemayor, 50, who was in the lift with his wife, said he initially felt it going down normally – and then falling.<\/p>\n

There was a sudden “clack clack clack” noise and dust began seeping into the cabin. <\/p>\n

Those aboard screamed, prayed and cried, reports said.<\/p>\n

“I believed we were going to die,” Mr Montemayor, who was visiting from Mexico, said.<\/p>\n

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Firefighters arrived to rescue those trapped by making an opening in a concrete wall. <\/p>\n

“We couldn’t do an elevator-to-elevator rescue. We had to breach a wall on the 11th floor of the parking garage in order to open up the elevator doors,” Chicago Fire Department battalion chief Patrick Maloney told US TV.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fall was said to be a failed “hoist rope” and the incident remained under investigation, a city official told the Chicago Tribune newspaper.<\/p>\n

It is still unclear how the lift came to a halt without hitting the ground. ABC TV quotes fire officials as saying two cables snapped but there were many others still attached. <\/p>\n

The lift had passed its most recent inspection in July, reports say.<\/p>\n

The building is the city’s fourth-tallest and was renamed earlier this year as 875 North Michigan Avenue. <\/p>\n

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