The Los Angeles Chargers announced that several of their players and staff members were stranded in a “non-working elevator” at the team hotel in Dallas on Friday.
Before their preseason game against the Cowboys on Saturday, members of the Chargers’ traveling party became trapped in an elevator around 7:30 p.m. CT, according to a team statement.
‘Dallas Fire and Rescue crews responded to the incident and subsequently assisted everyone out of the elevator, one by one, through the ceiling panel to an adjacent elevator,’ the statement continued.
‘The Los Angeles Chargers would like to thank the Dallas Fire Department for their quick response, professionalism and substantial efforts to ensure the safety of everyone.’
According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, via the local television station WFAACrews responded to reports of an elevator emergency at The Westin hotel in downtown Dallas.
The Los Angeles Chargers announced that several of their players and staff members were stranded in a “non-working elevator” at the team hotel in Dallas on Friday.
An elevator technician is then said to have attempted to operate the elevator, but the DFR had to send its urban search and rescue team to the scene when those efforts proved unsuccessful.
The lift is believed to have become stuck in a ‘blind shaft’ between the third and fifteenth floors of the hotel.
Jim Harbaugh’s team will face the Cowboys at 3 p.m. CT on Saturday in their preseason finale at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
They will then begin the NFL regular season when the Las Vegas Raiders visit SoFi Stadium on Sunday, September 8.