We’ve all stared at that button in the elevator with the phone icon on it, supremely confident that if the cab came to a screeching halt while rocketing up to the 42nd floor, a simple button press ...

An elderly man who died in a parking garage elevator pushed the emergency button twice during an 8-minute span on July 6, but got no response despite Denver code requiring elevator operators to ...

DENVER --An elderly Colorado man found dead in a parking garage elevator had pushed the emergency button twice but got no response, police said. The decomposing body of 82-year-old Isaak Komisarchik ...

Does the door close button in your elevator actually work? In Trapped In An Elevator, one expert said the button was a sham. But after viewers wrote to us disputing that, we decided to run a little ...