Firefighters vs: Elevators. Before retiring here in Monterey I was asked to give a lecture about elevators to the Seaside FD.(City next to Monterey) I gave them general information regarding entrapments all the while stressing the fact that I didn't fight fires so they shouldn't work on elevators. Also there is always someone on call and usually less than 20 minutes away. Well anyway about an hour after the lecture the trouble calls started coming in. Turns out these guys decided to go out and practice and managed to break every elevator I had on service in Seaside.