Caught In The Lift Is No Funny Business

Tarikh: 14 Mac 2011.

Masa: 10.45AM.

Tempat: Lif Menara Maxis.

Kerja berjalan seperti biaso, bosan, penat dan kadang-kadang menjengkelkan. Lebih-lebih lagi ada yang mulut busuk dan membebel lebih tapi kerja tak banyak punnn. Al-kisah, aku kena naik level 9. Sambil berjalan dan SMS, masuk ke dalam lif bersama seorang mamat ni.

Tengah sibuk SMS, baru nak habiskan ayat penutup, *gedegang* lif bergegar, power hilang, lampu tiada (cuma ada lampu emergency yang malap) dan air-cond pun tak berfungsi. Masa tu Allah je yang tau, berdebar hati ni, macam nak bernikah (macam pernah nikah je sebelum ni). Time tu memang jiwa kacau dan panik tapi gua cuba kept cool sebab jika anda berada di dalam situasi bahaya dan genting, lebih-lebih lagi yang ada chance melibatkan hidup dan mati, walau apa jua yang berlaku, anda kena keep your cool. Berlagak macho. Selawat. Mengucap je.

Nasib baik lah ada seorang brader ni dalam lift ni, tapi dia tak membantu langsung. Boleh pula dia buka cerita yang lif ni ada sejarah hitam di mana dia cakap (tak tahu betul ke idok) ada kes orang mati masa construction lif ni. Pergh. Boleh tahan jugak mamat ni. Lepas tu dia cakap "Ini aaaa kalau kita ada atas tingkat 20 sana, kalau jatuh *boom* *kepusshh*". Beliau cerita siap sound effect bai.

Masa makin lama makin hilang, begitu juga dengan oksigen dalam lif tu. Tapi apa-apa pun kena relax. Keep cool sebab kalau anda panik, anda akan menggunakan kandungan oksigen di dalam lif tu dengan lebih pantas. Hampir 20 minit jugak lah aku dalam tu. Orang maintenance bukakkan lif kitorang tu dekat tingkat 3. Terpaksa panjat sikit sebab lif tu terbuka halfway dari pintu lif tingkat 3 tu.

Okay. Ini pengajaran buat saya. Di bawah ini ada cara, apa yang anda lakukan jika anda pula yang jadi mangsa seperti saya. Hey. We'll never knew. Sediakan payung sebelum hujan.

You don't think it is a serious situation? Let's have a read on this article.

Man Trapped in Elevator for 41 Hours

It was longest cigarette break of Nicholas White's life.

The 34-year-old New York production manager was working late one Friday night in October when he went outside for a smoke.

He was returning to his office on the 39th floor when the elevator stopped abruptly between floors. White pressed the alarm, letting it ring and ring.

But at 11 p.m. the building was deserted, and it would be nearly two days before White was rescued. He paced around the elevator like a bug trapped in a box, fighting claustrophobia every minute of his 41-hour ordeal, which was captured on a video surveillance camera.
"After a certain amount of time I knew I was in big trouble," White told "Good Morning America" in an exclusive interview.

He had no watch, no cell phone, no food or water. His only sustenance was a pack of Rolaids.

"Rolaids aren't a very good meal," White said.
The the most difficult part of the ordeal, he said, was going 41 hours without water. At one point, White thought he might die of dehydration.

He relieved himself by opening the elevator doors a bit and urinating down the elevator shaft.

"I hoped that might be a signal to people in fact: 'why is the elevator leaking?'"

A Cold Sweat

This is the actual footage via CCTV.

Cold yet sweating, White laid on the floor trying to stay calm. Then he got up and started pacing. At one point he pried open the elevator doors and screamed for help. The only response was silence.

"I had no idea if it was day or night," White said.
Herang the emergency bell, but he couldn't take the constant noise so he occasionally turned it off.

Split-screen video footage of the building showed other parts of the building, including three other elevators. The video showed maintenance workers occasionally fixing various things, but no one heard him and none of them wondered what was going on with car No. 30.
Not a religious man, White prayed for help. On Sunday at 4 p.m., White, who was nearly delirious from thirst, heard a voice on the intercom asking if anyone was there. Finally, he was rescued.

When he went back to work, White found out his co-workers who were also there late thought he had skipped out and left that night.

"A person left me a note about all the problems that occurred while I was playing hooky from the job," White said.

After the 41-hour nightmare, White received a settlement from the building. Unbelievable to many, he still takes elevators.

"Living in Manhattan I'd be seriously limiting my life if I didn't take elevators," he said.

Source: ABC - GOOD MORNING AMERICA - http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4693690

How about that? 41 hours. Almost 2 days. But he did survived. But what if the situation prolong and you want to get out from the lift. Well. Bear Grylls have the answers, but he also advice that you'd better stay for help and rescue.

Worst Case Scenario: Trapped in an Elevator

Well. There you have it. Peringatan untuk diri sendiri dan anda semua. Things happen aite? Sediakan payung sebelum hujan.






p/s: Lebih baik terperangkap seorang daripada dua orang. Kerana risau seorang lagi tu bukan orang. HAHA -_-