But the stuck elevator didn't seem to be what was agitating Massa.
Mr. Bloomberg said the subways had been evacuated safely and that he believed the rescues of people from stuck elevators had gone smoothly.
The blackout did cause sporadic traffic delays when some signals went dark, and the Los Angeles Fire Department said it responded to several calls regarding stuck elevators.
She knew he could not survive in a stuck elevator for more than a couple of days, never mind six weeks.
Two other Port Authority employees, Carlos Da Costa and Peter Negron, are heard on the radio, talking about a stuck elevator on the 87th floor.
"It's called a stuck elevator," he told the anxious faces.
If the service contract defines an emergency only as a stuck elevator with a person inside, however, that early morning service call could cost a co-op or condominium several hundred dollars.
But then not many lay people were in the room filled with creatures offering more phobias per square inch than a stuck elevator.
Finally completing the dive that they had launched in their stuck elevator, so many months before; they finally fell in and were both seized up in it together.
After failing to find a new job through an employment agency, Charity meets shy Oscar Lindquist (John McMartin) in a stuck elevator.