A 25-year-old student was trapped inside a Humanities Building elevator on the morning of Thursday, March 16, at 9:45 a.m.

Campus police were informed of the incident when mechanical engineering major Nicole Sakamoto, 19, alerted them when trying to use the elevator to get to the second floor but found the door partially open with Adriana Montano trapped inside.

Montano, who is hard of hearing, attempted to use the elevator, however, when inside and the doors closed, she was stuck inside.

“I knew somebody was going to come,” Montano said. “I’m hard of hearing so I use a [transcriber]… so whenever I press something and someone

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speaks, my phone gets it and then it just writes everything down.”

Patrol Officers Francisco Esqueda and Benjamin Kim quickly arrived on the scene at 9:48 and got to work trying to free Montano.

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