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 ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Residents of a high-rise apartment building in Miami are worried about health and safety issues because they say only partial service has been restored to one elevator and they had ...

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, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — When it was completed in 1931, the City Bank-Farmers Trust Company Building towered over the financial district as one of the tallest buildings in New York City. It was, in fact, the ...

The Easton Housing Authority got slapped with a violation Tuesday for a non-working elevator at its Francis Walter House high rise in Easton. The city gave the housing authority five days to repair ...

Elevators in Penn's three high rises have been stopping, bouncing, opening inches below the floor and even failing altogether, leaving residents frustrated and questioning when the faulty system will ...

"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 ...

RESIDENT WHO SAYS THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. WELL, ALL IS WORKING AS IT SHOULD HERE AT THE PRESSLEY STREET HIGH-RISE. BUT RESIDENTS TELL US THAT WAS A DIFFERENT STORY YESTERDAY AFTER THE ELEVATOR ...