美国迈阿密州一座名叫Sunrise的高层住宅楼的电梯一周前发生故障停止运行，致使高层住户无法出门，如被困在监狱里。
　　住宅楼三楼的居民Gert Floren今年93岁高龄，没有电梯，她只得缓步爬楼梯下楼，“我的腿都动不了了。”
　　电梯停用后的一周里，住宅楼里的高层住户和Gert Floren一样，只得爬楼梯上下楼。
　　loren说：“如果发生火灾，我往哪逃？就算逃出去，也被烧死了。”
　　Floren还在靠拐杖行动，所以爬楼梯时十分不方便，需要人帮忙。她说：“我试着自己上楼，但真是难上加难。”
　　而那些住在更高层的住户就更倒霉了。居民Sylvia Fox说：“没有电梯，你根本没法出门买东西。”
　　住宅楼住户强烈呼吁恢复电梯运行。
　　楼里居民说故障电梯已经被修过几次了。又一次，电梯维修工正要修时，正巧碰到CBS电台的采访，结果他们立马就闪人了。
　　居民Carol DeSensi说：“当时我问他们‘你们是来修电梯的么？’他们说是，我说‘太好了，我把电视台的人叫来做个采访。’然后他们竟然收拾东西走人了。”
　　住宅楼管理层拒绝就此事接受采访，不过他们说电梯问题会在未来一两天内解决。
　　Floren说：“他们最好早点儿修好。”
　　确实，对于楼里居民来说，电梯需要尽快修好。

Broken Elevator Traps Some Sunrise Condo Residents

　　SUNRISE (CBS4) – Residents of a Sunrise high rise feel like they are being held prisoner in their own building after the elevator quit working nearly a week ago.
　　“I can’t move this leg,” explained 93-year old Gert Floren as she slow climbed down the stairs from her third floor apartment.
　　For the past week she and her neighbors in Building 154 at Sunrise Lakes Condos, at 9850 Sunrise Lakes Boulevard, have had to use the stairs because the elevator is not working.
　　“I feel trapped,” said Floren. “If there’s, God forbid, a fire or anything else, how can I get out? By the time I get out, I’d be burned to death.
　　Floren, who uses a walker, can only make it up or down the stairs when someone is there to help her. She tried to do it by herself on Tuesday but quickly and ran into trouble.
　　“I attempted to do it myself, but truthfully speaking, I almost killed myself,” she said. “The walker opened up and I was in the middle of the staircase.”
　　Luckily, a neighbor spotted her just in time to help her out. Others here aren’t so lucky, they’re trapped on the upper floors and even if they can make it down the stairs, they’re still in trouble.
　　“You can’t go grocery shopping,” complained Sylvia Fox, “because you can’t take the stuff up.”
　　Residents of the building say repair crews have been by several times to work on the elevator.
　　They were there while CBS4’s Ted Scouten was interviewing Floren, but left when a resident pointed out CBS4 was doing a story.
　　“I said ‘Are you the elevator people’ and he said, ‘Yes we are’. I then said ‘Oh good because I contacted Channel 4 news’ and he said, ‘Oh you did then we’re not fixing the elevator’ and they packed up and left,” explained resident Carol DeSensi.
　　No one in the condo’s office were will to speak with Scouten on camera but did said legal and permitting problems have been the hold up. They’re hoping to have the elevator running in the next day or two.
　　“I want the elevator fixed,” demanded Floren.
　　For her and the rest, the sooner the better.