By Sean Ridgway, TME

On Tuesday, January 21 at 6:08 p.m., Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) Emergency Dispatch received a report of an elevator entrapment at the National Cement plant in Lebec, CA. When the Los Angeles County Fire Department and Paramedic Squad arrived on scene, they found the injured party approximately 20 feet above ground on top of an elevator…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: KCFD firefighters lower the injured individual in a stretcher from the elevator

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