Rescuers work to free dozens trapped on one of world's highest cable car systems

[Judi Lynn]

By Gerardo Lemos, CNNE
Published 3:18 AM EDT, Fri July 7, 2023

Rescuers in Ecuador are working through the night to free dozens of people trapped in gondolas on one of the world’s highest cable car systems.

Firefighters were alerted around 4 p.m. local time Thursday of a technical failure that affected the Quito Cable Car, with at least 70 people trapped, the Quito municipality said in a statement. They launched a rescue effort in the highlands soon after.

In the early hours of Friday morning, Quito authorities said 17 people had been rescued so far. Ongoing rescue efforts include ambulances and 40 emergency workers including paramedics, high mountain teams, and aerial drone units.



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[Easterncedar]

1. Nice views

[Effete Snob]

2. They're already free

…they just can’t get off the cable car.

Freedom is a state of mind.

No one says “7 billion people trapped on earth and can’t get off.”

It’s just a matter of perspective. You aren’t truly free until you are free wherever you are.

[marble falls]

3. meh.

[Effete Snob]

4. It's all a matter of perspective

[marble falls]

5. Tell THAT to someone locked in a gondola. Maybe we could send them TM instruction and they could ...

... use the time to seek their personal mandala. After all, this is all maya anyways, right?

[Effete Snob]

6. Now you're thinking constructively

If I took you hostage, transported you to Quito, Ecuador, and told you that you could never leave, you'd feel that you've lost your freedom, and that Quito was your prison.

Once these people are taken out of the gondola, that's exactly where they'll be - in a place you would consider a prison under other circumstances.

Some of them may be residents of Quito who, in fact, might never leave Quito. They are condemned to be prisoners of Quito.

Take this chimp...

Everyone's happy the chimp has been "freed" from the laboratory, and is now fenced into a compound in Florida. Would YOU want to be fenced into a compound in Florida?

The chimp has traded one prison for another, but doesn't realize it.

Same as us.

I say, leave them in the gondola until they free their minds first.

[marble falls]

7. You post in the wrong forums and topics ...

... Perhaps these are more appropriate:

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1226

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1220

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1219

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1135

I'm not contributing to any further to derailing this OP. You're welcome to PM me with anymore of your musings about this.

[Effete Snob]

9. I'm just envious of the people on that gondola

They get to hang free in the air with a beautiful mountainous and urban vista stretching out below them, and nothing to do but to simply take it all in.

And I have to work in front of a computer screen all day.

Who is trapped now, eh?

We should be so lucky.

[marble falls]

8. I appologize for the side track ...

... The photos almost seem to make it worth a couple of hours of sitting up there. I hope they are freed soon.