Hundreds of elderly and disabled residents at a Harrisburg high-rise apartment building were trapped inside their homes, forced to use the stairway, or stuck outdoors after a second elevator stopped ...

Residents at luxury high rise Astoria Tower in the South Loop are fed up, saying elevators are broken for months at a time, trash has been piling up and maintenance requests go unanswered.

Residents at a high rise for seniors downtown are feeling trapped in because of faulty elevators.There are two elevators at ...

Seniors living at Victoria Plaza Apartments in downtown San Antonio say their high-rise has started to feel less like housing ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — More than a dozen criminal charges have been filed against the owner and operator of Cathay Manor in Chinatown over the high-rise building's broken elevators. Cathay Manor, 600 N ...

"In case of fire use the stairs, not the elevator" -- appears on signs posted in elevator lobbies throughout the United States. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, however, experts are starting to ...

As the number of challenges associated with high-rise buildings continue to increase, so too does the responsibility of the fire department to know as much as possible about these buildings’ design, ...

WEST END, Ohio (WKRC) - Hundreds of people who live in a Cincinnati public housing high rise in the West End are forced to take the stairs on a fairly regular basis. Many are elderly or have physical ...