In the event you needed to guess which NFL staff’s gamers simply acquired caught of their staff lodge elevator, likelihood is you’d identify the Los Angeles Chargers fairly early. Properly, you’d be appropriate.
As was introduced by the staff on Friday evening, a number of folks together with gamers needed to escape a caught elevator in Dallas. They needed to crawl by a ceiling panel separately to get to security.
The Chargers shared an announcement on social media to handle the matter:
“At roughly 7:30 pm CT Friday night, a number of gamers and members of the Chargers touring celebration have been stranded in an inoperable elevator on the staff lodge,” the assertion learn. “Dallas Hearth-Rescue responded to the incident and subsequently assisted everybody from the elevator, one after the other by its ceiling panel and into an adjoining elevator.”
Per a report from WFAA’s Matt Howerton, round 15 folks have been caught in a so-called blind shaft someplace between the third and fifteenth flooring of the Chargers staff lodge in downtown Dallas. After a technician was unsuccessful in getting the elevator going once more, Dallas Hearth Rescue deployed an City Search and Rescue staff to get everyone out.
JUST IN: round 15 gamers and personnel from the @chargers needed to be rescued from an elevator separately tonight in downtown Dallas when it acquired caught.
They play the @dallascowboys in a preseason sport tomorrow.
That is my video from the scene. Per our station @wfaa:… pic.twitter.com/mgMhPuYZsz
— Matt Howerton (@HowertonNews) August 24, 2024
Gamers have been caught for 2 hours earlier than getting rescued, in response to ESPN’s Kris Rhim. Afterward, Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh invited all DFR employees to dinner within the staff meal room.
The Chargers will play the Dallas Cowboys of their preseason finale on Saturday. The sport is scheduled to be kicked off at midday CT.
