A group of five tourists were stranded 200 feet underground in the Grand Canyon Caverns Monday night, about 24 hours after the elevator that brought them into the cave broke down on Sunday.
About 100 miles west of Flagstaff, Arizona, the Grand Canyon Caverns has a small hotel and restaurant 20 floors below where stranded tourists stay and workers try to fix the elevators.
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The Cococino County Sheriff’s Office was determining on Monday whether tourists should be lifted from the elevator shaft.
“There’s this. It’s like a lift, basically lifting an elevator shaft with a harness. It’s kind of like coming out of a sea helicopter,” said John Paxton, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Office. told Fox News Digital on Monday.
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Paxton said there are 20 steps that people can climb to get out of the cave, but tourists who are stranded have health problems and cannot climb them.