Person Falls Down Elevator Shaft In South Slope

SOUTH SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A person who fell down an elevator shaft in a Fifth Avenue building Tuesday afternoon is expected to live, FDNY officials said.

Firefighters helped the person out of the elevator shaft at 625 Fifth Ave., between 18th and 17th streets, and into an ambulance just before 3:30 p.m. The unidentified person was being sent to the hospital but was likely to survive the injuries from the fall, an FDNY spokesman said.

The spokesman did not have details about how many stories the elevator shaft was.

This is the second accident in an elevator shaft in the borough this week.

On Monday, firefighters helped rescue a person who had fallen down a 10-foot shaft at 19 Richardson Street in Williamsburg. Crews were able to get the person out quickly and they were taken to Bellevue Hospital Center.

The person who fell on Richardson Street was a worker at the construction site and was in critical condition from the accident.

The FDNY spokesman Tuesday said he did not have information about whether the person who fell at the Fifth Avenue building was a worker there or whether the building was under construction.

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