2023-06-06 18:04:00
The emergency services intervened this Tuesday at the end of the followingnoon in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. A witness alerted us via the orange Alert us button. “What happens at the Vandervelde metro in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert? Firefighters, ambulances, police… And this for at least 2 hours“, Danielle wrote to us.
The STIB spokeswoman told us that it was regarding eight teenagers who found themselves stuck in an elevator at Vandervelde station. They were evacuated by firefighters around 7 p.m.
Contacted by us, the spokesperson for the Brussels rescue zone specifies the details of this unusual intervention. “Brussels firefighters intervened at the Vandervelde metro station to evacuate a dozen students with hearing and speech disabilities, stranded in an elevator in the station. The technician from the lift company was unable to get the machine back on the road within a reasonable time. As the doors of the elevator stuck in the elevator shaft opened onto a wall, it was decided to call on our RISC (Rescue In Safe Conditions) team, specialized in alpine evacuation techniques.“, indicated Walter Derieuw.
A firefighter came down to open the doors, fit the children one by one with a harness and then reassemble them and allow them to leave the premises via a ladder. “The whole operation took place calmly and there were no problems to report. The students were impressed by the means implemented, but behaved courageously and they respected the instructions.“, specified the spokesman of the rescue zone.
The origin of the technical incident remains to be established.
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