Does the door close button in your elevator actually work? In Trapped In An Elevator, one expert said the button was a sham. But after viewers wrote to us disputing that, we decided to run a little ...

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After Trapped In An Elevator premiered last week, we started hearing from viewers who disagreed with one of our on-screen experts about a quirk of elevator operation: the door-close button. Does it ...

NEW YORK (CBS) – Pushing that "door close" button won't make your next elevator trip any faster. The head of the National Elevator Industry, Karen Penafiel, confirmed to The New York Times in a recent ...

DENVER --An elderly Colorado man found dead in a parking garage elevator had pushed the emergency button twice but got no response, police said. The decomposing body of 82-year-old Isaak Komisarchik ...