MUST WATCH: Stuck in a freight elevator for an hour!

Warning (and this should go without saying):
Do not attempt anything you see in this video without the building owner's permission and proper training. Riding freight elevators is risky enough as it is, and opening the gate mid-shaft is incredibly dangerous. I was being very irresponsible (and not quite thinking straight) in this video, and in a few others prior; this incident served as a wake-up call, and as a result, I've largely stopped filming freight elevators since.
This is the elevator in a now-closed department store in the Chicago area, whose name, despite being mentioned in the video, will not be mentioned in the title or description to avoid further problems. Originally a 1970s Montgomery lift, this was modernized in the late 2010s by Schindler.
On my way down from 2, the elevator's safety brake engaged and stopped the elevator, leaving me stuck in the lift. After cutting the camera, I spoke to a Schindler dispatcher on the lift's emergency phone, who sent a technician out to free me from the lift. He arrived an hour later, opening the doors on the second floor, and pushed a ladder down into the lift for me to climb out. I was freed from the lift just fifteen minutes before the store closed for the day, at which point the Schindler tech let me use the original Montgomery freight to return to the first floor.
This obviously attracted the attention of the store's staff, to whom I apologized for riding the staff-only freight lift without permission, and for causing them so much trouble. Videos and Instagram posts from other lift filmers have shown this lift out of service over a month after I was here, leading me to believe that it was never fixed and didn't run again before the store's permanent closure three months later. To this day I feel sort of guilty, but in a way, also kind of honored, to have been (probably) the last person to ride this lift while the store was open.
Floors served: 2
Manufacturer: Montgomery
Type: Geared traction freight elevator
Fixtures (original): Square buttons
Modernized by: Schindler
Fixtures (modernized): MAD BS Moon
Capacity: 4000 lb
Year installed: 1971
Year modernized: 2019
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