{"id":15815,"date":"2025-12-08T01:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/2-elevators-in-osborne-village-apartment-building-inoperable-after-power-outage-caused-by-squirrel\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:20:57","slug":"2-elevators-in-osborne-village-apartment-building-inoperable-after-power-outage-caused-by-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/2-elevators-in-osborne-village-apartment-building-inoperable-after-power-outage-caused-by-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"2 elevators in Osborne Village apartment building inoperable after power outage caused by squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ManitobaResidents of a Winnipeg highrise have been told it could take up to five business days for both its elevators to be repaired in the aftermath of a power outage on Thursday.Building manager hopes to have elevators running again within 5 business daysNathan Liewicki  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Dec 07, 2025 4:44 PM EST | Last Updated: 5 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Residents in this 55-plus Osborne Village apartment building have been without both of their elevators after a power outage in Winnipeg on Thursday. The building manager hopes to have service restored in the next few days. (Jaison Empson\/CBC)Residents of a Winnipeg highrise have been told it could take up to five business days for both its elevators to be repaired in the aftermath of a power outage on Thursday.Daniel Ancelin is one of approximately 180 residents at 64 Nassau St. N in Osborne Village. Ancelin says he\u2019s fortunate that he\u2019s healthy enough to walk up and down the stairs to escape the building, albeit from the top of the 16-floor building.\u201cIt\u2019s still hard to do. I\u2019ve really got to take my breath after 10 steps \u2026 but I mean, I can do it,\u201d he said Sunday. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people here that just can\u2019t and they\u2019re stuck in their places.\u201dThe 127-unit building\u2019s residents are all over the age of 55, and frustration is mounting, Ancelin says.Daniel Ancelin, a resident on the 16th floor of the 64 Nassau St. N apartment building, says he\u2019s fortunate to be healthy enough to walk up and down the stairs to get out of the building.   (Jaison Empson\/CBC)\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people that are very frustrated. I know a couple of friends that have said they\u2019re going to move out of here because this is the fourth time we\u2019ve had the power failure \u2014 not in the elevators necessarily \u2014 but the power failure around Osborne,\u201d he said.\u201cIt\u2019s been crazy.\u201dBuilding manager January Melillo, who is also the project manager for Murdoch Management, told CBC that Thursday\u2019s outage was the third in about the past month.Power was restored around 12:30 p.m. Thursday after being out for about two hours, and affecting an estimated 1,900 customers, Manitoba Hydro said in a tweet on X.Update: the cause of this outage is a squirrel. The damage is a bit more extensive than initially estimated, so repairs are taking a bit longer. Updated ETR: about 12:30 p.m. Thank you for your patience.\u2014manitobahydroThe Crown Corporation revealed on the same social media platform that a squirrel caused the outage.But when the power came back on, the elevators failed to re-engage.An elevator maintenance crew was called in to assess the situation, and Melillo was told that the elevator had parts that were no longer operable.The inoperable parts were immediately sent out of province to be repaired. Replacement parts were also quickly ordered from outside Manitoba. Melillo says she called every elevator company in the province, but none had the matching specifications needed for the out-of-commission elevators.Hydro spokesperson Peter Chura confirmed the power outage but says he won\u2019t speculate on what caused the damage to the elevator. There is a process for customers with concerns about damage to make a claim on the utility\u2019s website.  Some residents confined to suitesMelillo says the temporary loss of the elevators has had a \u201ctremendous\u201d impact on residents \u2014 from postponement of surgeries to events having to be rescheduled, and dozens of residents confined to their suites or floor.\u201cThe physical walking up and down the stairs is very hard on the residents and some of them, I guess more fitter ones, were coming up and down, and bringing groceries and food to their neighbors.\u201dBuilding manager January Melillo says residents are constantly checking on one another while there is no access to elevator service. (Jaison Empson\/CBC)Melillo also said medications after being dropped off to residents multiple times a day.\u201cWe\u2019re certainly aware that it\u2019s not ideal to not have the two elevators, but we also know that some people are able to remain in their suites for a couple of days,\u201d she said.\u201cThat\u2019s not really going to be a dire situation for them as long as we can get them what they need in terms of medication and food and just having someone to reach out to.\u201dA few people have temporarily left the building to stay with family members, Melillo confirmed.She adds that Murdoch Management has been in constant communication with residents, including leaving a two-page notice with all residents about the situation on Friday.\u201cThe residents are a very close-knit group, you know, very determined and helping one another. They\u2019re checking in on each other,\u201d Melillo said.Ancelin isn\u2019t sure there\u2019s much to do for residents who are physically unable to take the stairs to get out and about, until elevator service resumes.\u201cStaying in their place, watching TV \u2026 I\u2019m not sure much more,\u201d he said.\u201cIt\u2019s difficult for them, let\u2019s face it.\u201dABOUT THE AUTHORNathan Liewicki is an online reporter at CBC Manitoba. He was previously nominated for a national RTDNA Award in digital sports reporting. He worked at several newspapers in sports, including the Brandon Sun, the Regina Leader-Post and the Edmonton Journal.With files from Josh Crabb and Gavin Axelrod<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ManitobaResidents of a Winnipeg highrise have been told it could take up to five business days for both its elevators to be repaired in the aftermath of a power outage on Thursday.Building manager hopes to have elevators running again within 5 business daysNathan Liewicki \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Dec 07, 2025 4:44 PM EST [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,127,1],"tags":[116,126],"class_list":["post-15815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-manitoba","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-manitoba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}