poor kid, jesus. >> he can't go up. >> and they can't get down. >> in that moment, i just knew that, oh, my god. >> people trapped in extremely tight spaces. and the most unusual places. >> how in the world did this person get in here? >> when escape seems unlikely. >> i couldn't figure out what was on top of my head because i couldn't get it off of me. i was trapped. >> and the hope for rescue is remote. >> we have no idea how to even come close to getting him out. >> the cameras rolling, teals of

heroism. >> no matter how much he screamed, he was coming out. >> i think it's important for people to realize how precious their time here is. >> and triumph. >> transport to trauma center. i'm pretty ecstatic. >> it's a miracle, actually. it's a miracle. caught on camera: trapped. >> an estimated 40 million americans suffer from phobias and one of the most common is claustrophobia, the fear of enclosed space. we'll bring you stories of people trapped in some of the scariest, most confined spaces possible. the fear of death in these situations is all too real. so it's up to the rescuers

putting their own lives on the line to help those in danger get out alive. it's 9:30 a.m., a fire, rages in the kitchen on the first floor of the royal hotel and quickly spreads. but 16 floors above, an american knows nothing about the blazing inferno below. no alarm, no phone call, no notice at all. her husband is in china, away on business and she's in her hotel room with her 7-year-old daughter sauna. when something catches sauna's eyes outside the window. >> i saw some smoke and i saw that it was coming from straight down below the window. and then i heard people

screaming. >> rochelle, panicked, rushes to the door, only to discover the hallway is filled with smoke. >> my daughter yelled, we're going to die. there were no emergency lights in the hallway, so it was pitch black and i wasn't confident that in smoky conditions with my daughter and myself upset that i could make it. >> so rochelle makes a tough decision, staying in the room is their best hope. >> i said, you know what, sauna? the fire department is here, let's wait and they'll put out the fire and we'll walk down the stairs. >> turns out it's the right choice. for many at the hotel, there would be no way out. the hotel has no sprinklers, no smoke detectors and no working fire alarms. and worse yet, the emergency exits are locked to prevent guests from sneaking out without

paying. this fire is the worst hotel fire fire -- about 30 minutes after the fire breaks out. rochelle and sauna are still stuck in their hotel room, fighting smoke in darkness and trying to let someone, anyone know they're up there. in need of rescue. >> but by that time the phone was dead and the lights were out. we were trapped and we were confined. >> then in the midst of the chaos, rochelle finds a cell phone her husband has left behind. but being a foreigner in a foreign city, she can't speak thai and has no idea who to call. >> somebody has to know we're here. >> rochelle was worrieded. this trip was supposed to be the start of a great drur. -- adventure. rochelle and her husband and daughter would live in thailand

for a year. staying in a hotel temporarily, they had just been looking at places to rent the day before. just then it hits her. >> i just ran out of the office and i jumped on my motorcycle. >> clayton wade is the real estate agent who had been showing rochelle houses and the only person in the country she know who is speaks english. now he keeps her on the cell phone as he races to the hotel. >> when i drove up, you could see smoke and flames going up the elevator shaft. and it was obviously very, very bad. >> he asked us to wave something out the window so he could show the fire chief where they were. >> news footage at the scene shows clayton on the cell phone. >> we led them to where police and firemen were and started talking to them and pointing to where they were. >> after hanging out the open window, clayton is trying to

keep rochelle calm, feeding her rescue information. >> that bucket is coming right up to your room. i said to myself, that bucket isn't coming up this high. >> and she's right. the ladders aren't tall enough to get to the right floor. >> smoke inside, smoke outside. and i thought to myself, i know how people feel when they're drowning. >> rochelle wonders out loud if she and her daughter will make it out alive. >> in that moment i just knew, oh, my god, i made the wrong choice, we're going to die. >> clayton tells her helicopters are on their way. rochelle and sauna have been fighting for their lives for nearly three hours and rescuers are in fact trying to land helicopters directly above them. but what could save them might also kill them. chopper blades are throwing the thick black smoke right at rochelle and sauna.

>> i thought then, we might not make it. we might not make it. so close. that moment i raged, and screamed with rage. >> desperate to stop the smoke from choking them, she slams the window shut. >> at the moment the window shut, that made my heart sink. there was no question in my mind, that window was not going to open the window again. >> moments later rochelle does open the window again, and through the smoke, a lifeline suddenly appears. >> out of nowhere, it seemed a rope dropped in front of our window. >> but the rope is just out of her reach, she searches for anything to help, and grabs the closest thing, sauna's teddy bear. >> that teddy bear extended my reach and we used that teddy

bear's arms like a bow hook to pull the line in. >> the line seems anything but secure. but with mo other options, rochelle nervously slipped her daughter's leg into the harness, makes her daughter promise to hold on tight and lets her go. >> the moment i let her go, i was scared that she would slip through the ring and i would see her fall 16 stories. >> but sauna keeps her promise, as rescuers on the roof pull on the line with everything they have. a few minutes later t rope reappears, and now it's rochelle's turn. >> by that time, everybody was really anxious because of the smoke because it is very, very thick. there really wasn't much time left at all. >> barefoot, rochelle carefully climbs out the window. >> i couldn't get the loop up high enough on my leg and i

thought if i let go now, i'm going to be dangling by my ankles upside down. >> the loop precariously around her arm, she takes a leap. she holds on for her life, eyes closed, never looking down. four hours after the fire erupted, rochelle and sauna are finally safe. >> i recall a huge sense of relief. i just thought well, i have been brave long enough, and i collapsed. >> coming up, caught between a rock -- >> a frightening situation up here in lake los angeles. >> and a hashrd place -- >> rescuers race to save -- >> been hit with a major earthquake. >> and los angeles is rocked. >> my initial thought was a bomb had hit the fire station. >> people trapped everywhere.

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a right frightingen situation here in los angeles. >> trapped between two boulders just in a space just a few inches wide. >> he would slide farther and farther down into that crevasse. if the chest isn't allowed to expand, obviously yousuf indicate. >> rescuers know if they don't

act fast, they'll watch this child die right before their eyes. >> the first thing we did was build rigging below him, so he wouldn't slide down any farther. >> tommy smyth is able to slip a rope around paul from above and he starts pulling. >> i was pulling on him so hard that i couldn't believe it. it should have lifted someone twice his size. >> is it doing anything? >> no. >> paul is wedged in so tight, rescuers worry if they pull too hard, they'll yank an arm right out of its socket. >> that's right, keep it up, keep it up. >> okay, okay, okay. >> paul needs the rest, the temperature is 110 degrees and it's even hotter on the rocks. he's becoming dangerously dehydrated. >> start scooting for me. >> he was quickly becoming exhausted trying to help us and that was a concern also, that

soon he wouldn't be able to help us. >> just an hour earlier, paul and a friend had been climbing on his rocks a favorite neighborhood hangout in the high 10 miles north of los angeles. by now, an hour into the ordeal, firefighter tom jones knows his team won't be able to pull paul to safety from above. so they decide it's time to call in the big guns. l.a.'s urban search and rescue team. one of the most elite rescue units in the country. as they wait for the help to arrive, paul's big brother, tommy tries in that brotherly way to keep paul calm. >> i told him, i go, hang in there, and he looked at me and i said i'm going to go get some water, don't go anywhere. >> finally the rescuers arrive

from l.a.. >> i was a little bit stunned for a second and then my mind started gearing up. >> keep it tight, i don't want him slipping down at all. >> by now it's been almost two hours. paul is understandably exhausted. captain roy knows that he'll need assistance from everyone involved, even little paul. >> at the time he was getting a little bit sleepy. i said do you play baseball? >> he said, oh, yes. >> captain roy runs through his options. none of their usual rescue techniques, pulley systems, drilling, powerful air vacs to separate rock seemed like they would work in this situation. just then it hits him. >> i thought of wesson oil, get some lubrication. >> wessen oil.

not exactly a technique he le n learned in rescue school. but he's trained to come up with solutions fast. he sends tommy to go for the popular vegetable oil. >> they return within minutes, passing the lubricant into the hands of roy. >> i was letting it run down the rock on to his pants and front and back of him. >> another firefighter douses paul from above. >> we pulled and he started yelling, and i said don't stop. i said no matter how loud he screams, he's come ought. >> after two hours and 56 minutes into the ordeal, out slides paul. >> when he started moving, his

pants came off. >> you want to go climbing again. >> firefighters told me that if i would have went down two more inches, my chest would have caved and i would have died. i would have been suffocated. >> paul is in great spirits, but he can't help but think back to those first few minutes when he wasn't sure if he was going to make it. >> my first thought was i'll never see my mom, or my friends, or stuff like that, i would never see them again. >> but somehow, the 11-year-old boy managed to compose himself. patrick roy credits paul for staying so home. and paul and his big brother credit roy for saving his life. >> they were terrific, they did a great job. coming up, a flash flood and a car is sinking, fast. >> i just remember looking at

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a woman is trapped in her car and it is sinking fast. >> i could see the lady inside and she was terrified because she was going to die. >> moments earlier, rocky cosla was on his way to dinner with his family late for their 7:00 reservation and slowed even more by bad weather. >> it was just driving rain and there was flooding on the highway. >> as rocky comes down the exit ramp, he looks to his right and sees a flooded underpass. >> it was like a lake. i was thinking, well, now we are going to be a little later.

>> as rocky prepares to turn away from the flood, another car catches his eye. >> as i stop, this car comes in front of me and she goes into the water. and it wasn't a small amount of water. >> another driver, howard absets, also sees the car trying to plow through the flooded road. >> for a split second i think, this cannot be happening. it is unreal. >> the woman in the car loses control and the suv starts to drift. >> both rocky and howard know if they don't act there's no one else around and she could be in real trouble. luckily, rocky is a doctor trained in trauma life support so he doesn't hesitate to help. >> the front starts to go under pretty rapidly. i decided i'm going to go out there. >> the water was freezing cold. it was unbearable, actually. rocky and i were actually holding hands because we don't know what the water is like, and about that time we get about

halfway out and the water is getting deeper. the vehicle really starts to sink quicker and at that point there we start swimming. >> the water is at least 10 feet deep in spots and by the time rocky and howard reach the car it's almost completely submerged. >> i just remember looking at this woman screaming on the other side of the window thinking, that's got to be the worst thing you can ever go through. i merely drowned when i was a kid, and so i thought, no, whatever we have to do, we are going to do because there's no way that's going to happen. >> rocky sees the woman trapped in the sinking car is wrecked with fear and knows he needs to act fast. >> i got on the left rear bumper and started pounding on the window on that side. i was giving it all i had and i just could not get it to break. >> by now a few other rescuers have made their way out to the car.

as rocky continues to beat the window, howard makes his way to the front of the car. >> i'm kind of leaning on the hood and the windshield, the water had completely sub merged the car at that point there. we couldn't see, the water was her can i. >> instinctively, howard shoves his right arm to where he thinks the driver window should be and much to his surprise the window is down. >> she grabbed my arm and at that point there i thought, well, we can get her out now. >> and i reached down, too, i got the right leg because she had somehow freed herself from the car and as we pulled she popped out. it was like a cork out of a champagne bottle, just bang. >> rocky and howard are spent and overjoyed that the victim is out. but there's still trading in the frigid water and nobody is out of danger yet. in fact, it is about to get even more dangerous. as it turns out, the victim doesn't know how to swim. >> never approach a drowning victim from the front and where

am i but right in front of this lady. >> by now, several of the rescuers have steadied themselves standing on top of the fully submerged car where rocky and the victim are thrashing. >> i'm reaching out to her trying to get her back to the top of the vehicle. after a couple of second, we were able to get her back on top of the car. >> now, shivering from the cold water, they are not on solid ground yet, but finally everybody is safely on the roof of the car. >> there are two guys up there yelling and one guy says to me, hey, that's my sister and thanks for saving her life. >> the woman's brother gives rocky some unexpected news. saving her that day is really the icing on the cake. >> one of the coolest things is, it turns out that was her birthday. >> what a birthday gift.

a second chance at life. when the fire department arrives, they are all pulled to dry, solid ground. and then a bit later when the car is towed out, a mysterious finding. all four of the car windows are up. how the driver's side window opened just enough to let her out and then closed again? no one knows. >> well, somebody was watching over her, i really think. the water probably shorted out the system of the windows. >> no matter how the windows managed to open, rocky and howard are both glad they were driving by just at that moment. >> the fact is, here was somebody in distress that couldn't help themselves. we just reacted. >> a lot of people have said it was a heroic thing to do. i don't want to say that, i don't use that word. i thought, i'm a swimmer and i'm trained in life support, so, in a way i thought, who better to do this than me. >> when all is said and done, rocky's thoughts turn back to what brought him to this spot in the first place. >> as i came out of the water, i was cold, shaky, and i remember

thinking, boy, we are really going to be late for dinner now. and my wife said, are you nuts? coming up, and earthquake shakes a major city. a parking deck collapses. a man is trapped. >> we were listening to this guy just screaming and hollering. it was like a wounded animal. >> resources spread thin. can firefighters afford to stay to help one man? >> a cop concrete beam is rite across his legs. >> tough decisions ahead. and, a boy stuck in the oddest place. rescuers race to free him before the air runs out. when "caught on camera: trapped" continues. h's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space. which would render retirement planning unnecessary. but say the sun rises on december 22nd, and you still need to retire.

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the assaults were in retaliation for the burning of the koran on a nato base and the killing of 17 afghan civilians earlier this year. the midwest is bracing for even more severe weather today. five people were killed as hundreds of tornadoes ripped across the u.s. now back to "caught on camera". we have stories of brave individuals caught in frightening situations, but what happens when a natural disaster strikes a major u.s. city devastating whole neighborhoods. it will take heroic efforts by rescuers to save as many trapped victims as they can. a mall parking deck collapses. >> we have one man that is under a parking structure, a crush injury. >> and a mile away at the very same moment an apartment complex caves in. >> i remember breaking down and crying. i wasn't ready to die.

>> people trapped everywhere. >> we've been hit with a major earthquake. >> it is 4:31 a.m., january 17th, 1994. centered in the northridge section of los angeles, california, 20 miles north of downtown, it all happened so fast. in seven terrifying seconds, nature unleashes it's fury. >> the first thing i heard was a loud explosion. everything started shaking violently. >> most of the residents at the northridge meadows apartments including steve langdon, are at home when the quake rattles them out of their bds. >> the only thing i could think

about is getting under something or getting to the doorway. i took a couple steps and there was a dresser that was against the wall that hit me in the chest and knocked me back down. >> firefighter mike henry on the overnight at the firehouse is jolted out of his sleep. >> it was such a ferocious sound. my initial thought was we had a bomb that hit the fire station. >> he and his crew head out immediately to assess the damage. and when they get to the north ridge meadows apartments, everything looks fine to him. >> the people that were out in the street said the building had collapsed. and we shined a light on the building and it looked like it was fine. >> henry doesn't know it yet, but the building is anything but fine. steve langdon whose apartment is on the first floor is laying face down on his mattress still struggling to get to his feet. >> i couldn't figure out what was on top of my head because i couldn't get it off me. i was trapped. >> when firefighter mike henry and his team discover what is pinning steve langdon and others trapped on the first floor of the apartment complex, it will trigger a massive rescue effort. but at the moment, all seems quiet at the meadows, at least to the rescuers. so henry and his crew continue on looking for victims. meanwhile, only a mile away, another team of rescuers is

trying to reach salvador pena. >> a concrete beam came right across his legs. he's still down there, conscious, he's talking about his legs are completely crushed. i can hear him moaning right now. >> pena is on the first floor of a mall parking deck operating his sweeping truck when the quake strikes. and now the entire concrete structure is on top of him. >> we have no idea if we'll even come close to getting to him. >> firefighter ray labayae struggles through the metal and busted concrete to make contact with the victim. >> he is holding his own. his legs are cracked mid-femur there. real cramped quarters, definitely. definitely a lot of pain. >> the whole time he's, get me out of here. i just conversed with him the best i could to try to give him some hope. >> but others aren't as hopeful. the victim is pinned very deep under the pile of rubble and it will take a huge effort to get just one man out using resources

rescuers could use on more people in other places. labayae and his team get together to decide what to do. >> as we are huddling, we are listening to this guy just screaming and hollering. it is just -- it is nothing i ever felt before. it is like, almost like a wounded animal. i mean, you are going, we are not supposed to leave people like that. the captain there just said, we are going to get this guy out. >> so labayaee's team of 14 men begin the task of unburying the maintenance worker. across town, firefighter mike henry has made his way back to the meadows apartment complex and, again, residents insist to him the building has collapsed. >> everything looked fine and we told them the same thing. >> but then right as henry is about to drive away for the second time with his fire truck, a man in the distance clawing at the base of the building catches his eye. >> i stopped the rig, got out,

went over and asked him, what are you doing? he said, there's somebody trapped under the building. i kind of thought this guy might be a little nuts. >> even though henry can clearly see the building is standing, he decides to step back and compare it with another section of the l-shaped structure. >> i saw the first floor balcony or the second-floor balconies line up and the third floor balconies line up and i went to the roof line. and all of a sudden the roof jumps up eight feet. then it dawned on me the building has collapsed and a whole floor is pancaked. that kind of hit me like a ton of bricks. >> henry starts to do the math in his head. 50 apartments on the first floor and the worst case scenario he thinks there could be 100 people trapped. his mind races knowing he's about to become part of a tremendous rescue effort.

and at the parking deck, their attempt to save one man is moving along slowly. firefighter ray labayae continues to talk to the victim and is able to get him an oxygen mask, but now nearly four hours into the ordeal, salvador pena is losing hope. >> it is more time war on, it was more like come down and pray with me, come down and cry with me. we were never able to give him anything for his pain, so that was always there. that was bad. >> but rescuers are making progress. and by now the operation at the apartment complex is in full swing. mike henry has been cutting through the second floor to access what was the first floor. >> it's an erie feeling to know that i might be right on top of this person and i don't want to hit him, so be very careful about how deep i set the saw down into the material. >> henry has been hacking away for two hours and is physically and emotionally spent. he had just been searching for a little boy and when he finds him it isn't good news.

after reporting the boy's death to his mother, henry needs a moment to pull himself together. but that brief break is interrupted by an excited fire department volunteer. >> he came running over, we were the closest ones, he says, hey, there's somebody talking to us. >> steve langdon has finally managed to attract some attention with the help of his roommate, jerry, who has a hearing impairment and is also trapped in his bedroom right next to steve's. >> my head was against the mattress, so my voice was really muffled. jerry had a hard time hearing me because he didn't have his hearing aid on, so i became jerry's ears and he became my voice. >> firefighter henry grabs his gear and along with his crew starts tearing away at the building. they reached steve's roommate first. >> oh, the sky looks beautiful.

>> steve is now counting the long minutes until they come back for him. >> he's right by that window. >> i think there was more aftershocks and i could still hear the building settling. >> now the rescuers slice deeper into the building trying to free steve. and not the moment too soon. >> i had five fractured ribs and i had a collapsed lung and i had almost a quarter blood in my lung. later they told me i was probably within 20 to 30 minutes of drowning in my own blood. >> almost six hours after he was trapped under the rubble, steve is carried out of the building. >> i just remember seeing all these people. i mean, not anybody i knew. there were just people, cameras, i remember people taking pictures, people yelling. >> not long after steve's rescue, there's another reason to celebrate. this time at the mall. >> this is rescue 104, we need

transport to the trauma center. >> after eight grueling hours of breaking up and removing debris from around the trapped man, they are able to lift salvador pena out of the hole in the ground. >> i'm pretty ecstatic, i mean, considering, look at this place and just know that it is a miracle, actually. it is a miracle. >> but there is some grim news. 57 people died from the north ridge earthquake. 16 of them at the meadows apartment complex. it caused more than $20 billion in damage making it the costliest earthquake in u.s. history. steve langdon says those hours of being trapped alone, not knowing if he'd make it out alive, changed him forever. >> this kind of event made me realize that today is the only day i have. i don't know what's going to

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a call goes out to 911. >> houston, what's your emergency? >> it is 6:00 a.m. >> a car has just run off the road. the lights are on. i can't see a person but they are in that car. >> so you think they may be trapped? >> yes, sir. >> someone is trapped, but not in the car. rescuers make a stunning discovery near the wreckage. they can only see an arm and a leg. it's a woman pinned underneath a ton of concrete. captain logan can't begin to imagine how the victim could have gotten here beneath a concrete cone, but only a few minutes after 6:00 a.m. he's about to get his second shock of the day. >> i saw this concrete cone and i kind of asked one of the guys if he would call for the medical examiner, because i thought we had a fatality. he said, no, she's alive.

>> it is unbelievable that anyone could actually be alive under this heavy concrete structure, but now rescuers have some serious thinking to do. >> that was a tough decision to make how we were going to lift this heavy object up without causing harm to the victim. i mean, it was really shaved right close to her head. we could have actually killed her in the process of doing the rescue. >> before they get started, firefighter mike cochran climbs inside the concrete cone to make sure whatever plan they come up with won't cause the victim more harm. >> i remember the first thing that i thought when i got in there was like, how in the world did this person get in here? >> her name, she tells cockrell, is wendy. with a few details she provides, rescuers piece together the puzzle. >> we believe she was ejected out of the car and she came straight out of the top.

>> out of the top and directly under a concrete pipe used to build sewers and left on the side of the road overnight. it is with almost impeccable timing that the impact of the crash tips up the concrete pipe and wendy slides underneath. the pipe flops back down on top of her pinning her arms and legs in ground soft enough from overnight rain to cushion the impact. it is hard to believe, but she's alive and needs help desperately. >> it looked bad. everything led to serious injuries, everything you can see. >> wendy is wrecked with pain. she has bad gashes on her face and head and cockrell has another concern. >> she was real cold. both of her hands and her feet were blue from, i'm assuming, lack of circulation and the cold weather. >> now it is time to begin the delicate process of raising the

heavy concrete cone off her body. but one mistake and wendy could be hurt more seriously or even die. >> we decided to use air bags and lift the object up. >> the air bags are inflatable pads routinely used by rescuers to lift heavy objects, very heavy objects like trucks or trains. >> hi pressure air bags can lift up to 17 to 20 tons. >> they begin by digging out space under the edge of the concrete cone to make room for the air bag. then slowly air is pumped in. >> it inches up just one inch at a time. we have to make sure we have it right. you drop a ton of concrete on somebody and you are going to kill them. >> wendy has now been under there for almost 50 minutes. but now the cone is rising.

and for the first time, wendy begins to believe she's going to live. >> all of a sudden, i could see out of my left eye people's feet. and a whole bunch of mud, it blew my mind. >> the details are fuzz by, but wendy starts to piece together how she came to rest under a ton of concrete. >> that morning i was just going the natural same old route. >> but this morning is a bit different. it is 5:45 a.m. and wendy is on her way to a shopping mall where she works as a security guard. >> it was a little rainy and slippery and there were no lights. i couldn't hardly see anything. >> wendy is driving cautiously, 10 to 15 miles below the speed limit and she knows there are a couple curves in the road just ahead. >> i hit the brakes to slow down and about that time i went flying. >> when wendy hits the brakes,

instead of slowing down her car skids out of control. when she comes to, she has no idea where she is. >> i couldn't see anything, i couldn't hear nothing, i thought i was already dead and nobody heard me. >> even worse, when wendy tries to move, she can't. she's trapped and terrified. >> well, at first, i started screaming help, help! oh, my god! nobody can hear me. help! help! then i got quiet and thought, nobody is going to hear me. >> fortunately, someone does see the accident and calls 911. with her life hanging in the balance, wendy is trapped under the weight of the concrete for an hour. and, finally, just before 7:00 a.m., she's freed. something even her rescuers

weren't sure they would see. >> i told her that she should have been on her way to play the lotto because that was her day. >> she's alive, but hurt. wendy breaks both her arms, has a broken ankle, a broken leg and several broken ribs. the captain who has seen a lot in his 20 years on the job still finds wendy's accident hard to believe. >> it was all having to happen within a split second. it is almost like somebody staged this thing and picked it up and set it up. she is probably the luckiest person in the world. coming up, two of the tightest most frightening places anyone could be trapped. a boy playing with friends is anything but safe. and a man takes the longest smoke break of his life, stuck in an elevator. dramatic footage caught on a

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rescuers in istanbul, turkey, feverishly work to crack this safe. if they don't, the 8-year-old boy stuck inside will run out of air and die. earlier in the day, the boy and some friends were playing outside a store that sells saves when on a dare he got inside this safe sitting on the curb. his friends shut the door but then they couldn't reopen it and the shop owner is away on vacation. now he's been trapped for hours and rescuers turn to the jaws of life to get him the air his body is craving. they need to work carefully. the space is small and the rescuers risk endangering the young boy. finally, they manage to pry the door enough to get air into the tiny box. they can see the boy covering his ears. he's afraid but still alive. after hours of uncertainty, the

boy is pulled to safety as the crowd cheers. he was checked out by medical personnel and given a clean bill of health. traveling halfway around the world from istanbul to new york city to a man stuck in a bigger box. as fears go, this is a pretty big one for so many people. nicholas white is trapped alone in an elevator. no watch, no cell phone, no water and no idea that he'll be stuck there, not just for hours, but for days. nicholas is a production manager for "business week" magazine working a late shift in midtown manhattan on friday night. it is just before 11:00 p.m. when he decides to head down from his 43rd office for a smoke break. on his way back up, somewhere between the first and 43rd floors nicholas feels a jolt. then suddenly the car stops. as he buzzes the alarm, he

expects someone to answer, but it rings and rings and rings. all caught on a security camera, but unbelievably, nobody is watching the footage and no one answers his call for help. so he pries open the door and sees he's between floors. next, nicholas tries screaming, but it is late at night and nobody is there to hear him. time passes, he doesn't know how much, an hour, two hours, he doesn't know if it is day or night, but he knows it is probably the weekend now. all the co-workers that might have wondered where he is have surely gone home until monday. hour ten, the security crew shows maintenance crews servicing other elevators but not car number 30. hour 14 pass, hour 15 passes. to go to the bathroom, he pries open the doors and goes down the shaft. he says he even hopes someone will notice the liquid coming down, but, of course, no one does. hour 30, thirsty, delirious,

nicholas gets mad and then he gives up. he lies down, he thinks, maybe to die. hours 35 and 36 pass, and then on sunday afternoon at 4:00 p.m., a voice on the intercom asks, is someone in there? 41 hours into his ordeal nicholas white is rescued. nicholas white never returned to his job after the incident. he did file a $25 million lawsuit against the building management company and the elevator maintenance company after a four-year battle the parties settled for an undisclosed amount. it took him a while to get past it but nicholas now rides elevators again. if you have a video you would like to send to us, log on to caughtoncamera.com. i'm contessa brewer. that's this edition of "caught on camera."