US EditionThe claustrophobic locked up Irene in her elevator: "When I read that there was a blackout all over Spain I panicked, I cried"
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"I don't usually take the elevator. I don't know why yesterday I hit the button." So says Irene Velázquez, a 23-year-old journalist from Madrid, the beginning of her distressing lock-up for almost an hour in an elevator in the capital. It was 12:30 a.m., and Velázquez, who lives with her parents and her brother, but was alone at home at the time, had gone down to buy cheese "to make a carbonara sauce." A few seconds after starting the journey to…
Ana María and her husband have remained a little less than an hour trapped in the elevator of their building, in the Madrid neighborhood of Palomeras Bajas, after the worst electrical blackout in Spain’s recent history has left the whole Iberian peninsula without light. “I have shouted like a desperate one, but no one would listen to me,” she said when one of Azor’s technicians, a maintenance and installation company for elevators in Madrid, has…
A fall in the electrical system has plunged all of Spain into chaos since mid-morning this Monday. A blackout of this magnitude is, according to Red Electrica, something...
One of the many people trapped in the elevator between the two floors of an office building tells the call of the workers, who had access to the key The blackout of Cadiz live: last minute
There have been multiple people affected by the loss of the power grid in the country. More news: Locked in the elevator by the blackout: "Most of the warnings we are receiving"
Rosa Murua was trying to catch her breath this afternoon in the San Sebastián neighborhood of Herrera. This 63-year-old woman, who has mobility issues, usually gets around on an electric scooter. The power outage caught her inside the underground Topo de Altza station, dozens of meters below the exit entrance. The elevator stopped working around 12:30 p.m.
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