A blind man has miraculously survived after falling four stories down an elevator shaft at a Los Angeles hotel.
The shocking incident occurred at the Madison Hotel, which is used to house low-income residents.
It was caught on video and the man can be seen waiting for the elevator doors to open before entering.
However, there is no elevator and the legally blind man falls down the shaft and sinks four stories.
He is expected to survive his injuries after the ordeal.
A blind man (pictured right) miraculously survived after falling four stories down an elevator shaft at a Los Angeles hotel.
The shocking incident occurred at the Madison Hotel (pictured), which is used to house low-income residents.
A video of the incident was shared online and is part of a lawsuit against the building’s owner.
In addition to the accident, a nearby worker is seen running to help the blind man after his fall.
“You already have the guy falling down the elevator shaft,” said resident Tammy Davis. fox11. ‘I mean, what’s next?’
He has lived in the building for 12 years and insists it is “a little better than living on the street, so you take what you can get, but it’s not the best conditions.”
The property is owned by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and its president is Michael Weinstein.
It owns other single occupancy hotels in Los Angeles that serve low-income people and some are on Skid Row.
They have spent about $300 million sponsoring rent control ballot initiatives in California, according to the Los Angeles Times.
However, in Los Angeles, code enforcement and public health complaints at foundation-owned buildings are three times higher than at other nonprofits on Skid Row, the outlet said.
It was captured on video and the man is seen waiting for the elevator doors to open before entering.
“You already have the guy falling down the elevator shaft,” resident Tammy Davis told Fox11. ‘I mean, what’s next?’
Davis added: “We have cockroaches and bed bugs.” The bathrooms are not always clean.
‘The bathrooms are not always clean. If you say something, sometimes they fix it. Sometimes they put you on a waiting list.
He wants several problems within the building resolved and said, ‘Someone has to do something.’
“My main goal is to fix the place.”
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation mentioned a legal case they won against the hotel’s previous owner over a broken elevator.
He added that they have spent more than $6 million renovating the Madison Hotel since 2018, with $600,000 in elevator costs.
Residents of the building pay $400 a month to stay at the facility.
“The Los Angeles Times and other media outlets that parrot the Times’ sloppy journalism have repeatedly blamed AHF for the Madison’s problems, especially the elevator outages,” said a spokesperson for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
‘This ruling shows that AHF did not know the lift was problematic to begin with.
“The real story should be the efforts AHF makes to keep the elevator running and fix it as quickly as possible when it breaks…the previous owner never disclosed more than a $150 bill for repairs in the three years he owned the elevator.” building”.
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