What do you send to an "elevator emergency"?

[RFDGloWorm]

What does your Department send to a "stuck elevator" call, or "elevator emergency"? One Engine, an Engine and Truck, just the Rescue Company? Please share....

[dfwfirefighter]

One (1) Engine, one (1) Truck, and one (1) Battalion Chief.

[RFDGloWorm]

Thanks for the info DFW..anyone else?

One (1) Engine, one (1) Truck, and one (1) Battalion Chief.

[dfwfirefighter]

One (1) Engine, one (1) Truck, and one (1) Battalion Chief.

For clarification purposes, the above-mentioned response is for a "stuck" elevator car with no injuries. If someone is trapped and/or injured, the run will likely escalate into a USAR incident and additional resources will be added to the original run.

[Trkco1]

1 Truck, 1 Rescue and a Battalion.

[Bones42]

Same as any other call....both companies dispatched, truck rolls first out of 1 station, engine rolls first out of the other station. Normally, the response is held with just those 2 vehicles.

[BoxAlarm187]

1 engine, 1 special services company (heavy rescue or tower ladder)...A BC or EMS Captain will generally self-dispatch.

[FIREMECH1]

Truck, engine, BC, rescue, and EMS Chief will also, as above, self-dispatch.

FM1

[SPFDRum]

Nearest truck or squad.

[rescue_1]

Back at college I believe it was an engine and the rescue, unless dispatch chose to dispatch it as an "entrapment". Then it was 4 engines, 2 trucks, 1 or 2 heavy rescues, 2 BLS ambulances and a paramedic car.

Once that assignment was dispatched, and it turned out it was a fat kid stuck in a swing.

[DeputyChiefGonzo]

We respond with the Engine company in the district and the Rescue. We add the tower/ladder company if necessary.

[sfd1992]

Closest company goes.

[johnsb]

Engine, ladder, rescue, medic, and a chief. Several years ago they had a call where a bunch of students overloaded an elevator and one was killed when he tried to exit through the door and the car moved.

[ADSNWFLD]

We send 1 engine. We should be sending the truck or rescue, since the engine really can't do anything once it gets there. But ...

[Rescue 2 Training]

Nearest Rescue.

[fyrmnk]

Single district unit

[tree68]

We'd probably send the rescue, but there would be a lot of surprised and curious firefighters responding, since ,to my knowledge, we don't have any elevators in our district.

Never say never, though...

[ATFDFF]

Closest truck goes.

[LaFireEducator]

We have one elevator in the district.

It gets a full response which includes the paid crew (maximum of 5 during the day; 2 at night) and volunteer response.

Generally an engine and the heavy rescue.

We have had one response in the past 10 years, so it's a very rare occurance.

[firebeach406]

We send nearest unit; usually an Engine Company.

As a tourist destination, we answer several elevator entrapments (stuck elevators) a day; most people I've seen on an elevator at a condo was 24. It got hot and smelly fast...