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The One Show had a major live blunder after guests Stephen Fry and Sheridan Smith got stuck in a lift.
Five skiers were taken to the hospital after a lift chair collision at the Heavenly Ski Resort on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe. The incident occurred on Monday, Dec. 23 around 10 a.m. local time ...
Apparently the last people to leave, they enter the same elevator on different floors and make small talk. On the way down, the elevator abruptly stops, seemingly due to the thunderstorm outside. With no cell phone signal, they worry they'll be stuck in the elevator together until Tuesday morning, as Monday is President's Day.
Wheelchair lift installation delays at Washington School Apartments have left at least one wheelchair-bound resident mostly stuck inside.
The two-person double chair, which for many years was the workhorse of the ski industry, can move roughly 1,200 people per hour at rope speeds of up to 2.5 m/s (8.2 ft/s). [2] The four person detachable chairlift ("high-speed quad") can transport 2,400 people per hour with an average rope speed of 5 m/s (16.4 ft/s). [ 3 ]
On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters (April 19, 1949 – October 6, 1993) made a 45-minute flight in a homemade aerostat made of an ordinary lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons. [2] The aircraft rose to an altitude of about 16,000 feet (4,900 m), drifted from the point of liftoff in San Pedro, California , and entered controlled airspace ...
Jewel Currie, 69, has been largely trapped in his home for the past 11 days because of a shortage in replacement parts for wheelchair lifts and similar technologies.
Both reported for work on February 1, 1968, a day the rain would be later reported as torrential, overflowing the sewers and flooding the streets. [2] While on shift, at around 4:20 pm, the pair sought refuge in the back of their truck during a rainstorm. A malfunction followed, and both men were crushed to death by the truck's garbage ...