{"id":4040,"date":"2013-04-30T00:17:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T19:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2013-04-30T00:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T19:17:51","slug":"hundreds-of-tourists-stuck-1000ft-up-at-the-top-of-the-shard-after-lifts-are-grounded-by-fire-alarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=4040","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of tourists stuck 1,000ft up at the top of the Shard after lifts are grounded by fire alarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/l11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4038\" alt=\"View from The Shard, London.    free pic\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/l11.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/l11.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/l11-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/l11-409x300.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a>As the tallest skyscraper in\u00a0 Western Europe, the Shard offers breath-taking views of London.<\/p>\n<p>But for some who were stuck there yesterday, the view hardly compensated for them being stuck at the top while a fire alarm went off downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 visitors to western Europe&#8217;s tallest building, The Shard, were stranded 800ft up yesterday after a lift stopped working due to a fire scare.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the \u00a32billion building\u2019s viewing platforms cost \u00a324.95 for an adult and \u00a318.95 for a child &#8211; and while the delay meant visitors got an extended view, that did not appease their fury at the long wait for their descent.<\/p>\n<p>This automatically grounded the lifts &#8211; and some visitors claimed they were not allowed to use the stairs to return to ground level, The Independent reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the tallest skyscraper in\u00a0 Western Europe, the Shard offers breath-taking views of London. But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}