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Elevator Tricks of the Trade - Does this work?
For myself personally, my career did not include more than a handful of elevators within my response area. I just recently came across this information in regard to expediting elevator cars, sans stopping at any other floors using this combination of elevator control buttons from inside the elevator.
My question is whether or not this is accurate and if this is common knowledge among most firefighters with elevators being more of the norm for their first due response areas. If it's not, then the value of knowing this technique could prove to be useful and an eye opener for others inside the elevator car.
If there are other "Elevator Tricks of the Trade", please share them or provide links as a reference source for others.
In the interest of fire and life safety,
CBz
Note: I would test this myself but as mentioned above, elevators or not to common. Vineyards and cows are more common in my world... not highrise structures.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on
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I think this works on some models of elevator and not on others. I can't tell you which is which. I've used this on a few elevators in commercial hotels on EMS calls when we didn't have a fire department control key or hotel staff that could control the elevator for us.
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Permalink Reply by FETC on
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I'm with Ben. Works on some and not for others. Appears to be the older models. As far as common for firefighters use no. The elevator needs to be controlled if used for firefighting operations. When the fire alarm is activated, (for an investigation or an actual fire) the car is recalled to the ground floor per code. The car will not go up unless it is overridden by the use of an FD key.
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Permalink Reply by Scott Cook on
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Not accurate in all cases. My experience where it does work is with hospital staff elevators only
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Permalink Reply by Oldman on
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Not much of an issue in my district. We have 4 buildings with elevators which are only 2 stories, for ADA compliance.
I had never heard of this before, but have an ex member who works for an elevator company, and I will ask him about this. But maybe I could have fun the next time I'm in the city.
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