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" ◆100 people trapped in ski lift gondolas in Nagano Pref.
NAGANO, Japan, Dec. 15 KYODO
About 100 people were trapped inside gondolas as a ski lift in Nagano Prefecture came to a sudden stop Saturday morning, local police officials said.
About 60 of the trapped people were rescued by 7 p.m., with one woman being taken to a hospital for not feeling well, the officials said. The rescue operation is taking time as it involves forcing the gondola door open and taking each passenger out by suspending them on a wire."
From my experiences when I was there,any kind of Japanese 'co-ordinated' lift evac must've been a gong show.
The Dopp detach's that I worked on didn't even HAVE auxiliary drives...
, not that would have helped if in fact it de-roped.
