The 53-year-old housekeeper, who works for the billionaire Stephens family found herself trapped in an elevator in their New York City townhouse over the whole weekend. Call it just another American Horror Story trope, but for Marites Fortaliza it was a very real and terrifying ordeal.

On Monday, Multiple media outlets reported the strange incident, after members of the storied Fire Department of New York (FDNY) forced open the elevator doors and were shocked to find a person trapped in the tiny space. The firefighters had arrived at the townhouse to merely fix the elevator after they received a call from a member of the Stephens family and a deliveryperson, who said that it had become stuck between the second and third floors. it seems that no one had any idea that Fortaliza had been trapped in it, which she had been since Friday.

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However The housekeeper was rushed to a hospital for medical treatment, and reports state that, apart from severe hyderation, she was in a stable condition and subsequently released from the medical care facility. However investigations into the cause of the elevator's failure are still being investigated. The Department of Buildings had issued an aggravated violation for failure to provide access to inspectors on Monday after someone inside denied access to them, and said additional enforcement actions may be issued as well.

Several New Yorkers, frequent users of the city's thousands of elevators, took to social media to sympathise with Fortaliza's claustrophobic experience.

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