2023-06-06 19:18:05
This Tuesday afternoon, around 5:15 p.m., the Brussels firefighters intervened at the Vandervelde metro station to evacuate a dozen students with hearing and speech disabilities, stranded in an elevator in the station. The technician from the lift company was unable to get the machine back on the road within a reasonable time.
“As the elevator doors stuck in the elevator shaft were against a wall, it was decided to call on our RISC (Rescue In Safe Conditions) team, which specializes in alpine evacuation techniques”, explains Walter Derieuw, the spokesperson for the Brussels fire brigade.
One of the team members was lowered to open the elevator doors, fit the children one by one with a harness, then hoist them up to the roof of the infrastructure and return to the surface via a ladder. »
The whole operation took place calmly and there were no problems to report. “The students were impressed by the means implemented but behaved courageously and they followed the instructions (explained by gestures) to the letter”, emphasizes Walter Derieuw. The origin of the technical incident remains to be established.
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