Pensioner rescued from lift at care home

A ELDERLY woman was rescued after she became stuck in a lift at her residential care home early this morning.

Oldham fire crews were called to Park House Residential Care Home on Queens Road, Oldham, at 12.30am to reports of an elderly woman who had found herself stuck in one of the lifts there.

Residents are not usually supposed to use the lift at that time but it is believed that she mistook the lift for a different room and upon entering, triggered alarms which alerted carers, before the lift then became stuck between two floors.

The fire services were called and when they arrived they isolated the lift and turned it off before prising the main doors open which allowed one of the firefighters to get in and rescue the woman.

Two pumps attended as standard procedure for lift rescues in case the services are dealing with high-rise buildings.