Chargers coach on players stuck in Dallas elevator: ‘It was hot’
DALLAS - Los Angeles Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh praised players for staying calm after being trapped in a Downtown Dallas hotel elevator.
The players were rescued by Dallas firefighters late Friday at the Westin on Main Street.
Those players, including starting quarterback Justin Hebert, spent two hours trapped inside.
Los Angeles Chargers players rescued from Dallas hotel elevator
Several players and members of the Chargers traveling party were stranded in an elevator at the team's hotel in Dallas ahead of Saturday's game against the Cowboys.
The Chargers head coach was not in the elevator but saw the players after they got out.
"It was hot. As each person was coming off the elevator, everyone was sweating, and some had their shirt off," Coach Harbaugh said. "That’s a shared experience. I mean, it brought them closer together. I just missed it being on that elevator, and I was like, wish I could have been there with those guys."
The team said the players had to be pulled through a ceiling panel and moved to an adjacent elevator.
Dallas Fire-Rescue’s Urban Search and Rescue team used the working elevator as a ferry to move people in small groups.
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