ST. LOUIS - Victoria Melson lives on the top floor of the eight-story Tower Village Apartments on Highland Avenue in the Kingshighway West neighborhood of north St. Louis.

“Somebody needs to fix the elevator, please,” Melson said.

Melson tells FOX 2 the only two elevators in the building are not working. The apartments include seniors and disabled residents.

She’s worried about what would happen if there’s an emergency.

“It feels like nobody cares if we burn up in a fire,” Melson said.

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When a FOX 2 reporter contacted the apartment building by phone, the reporter was told that the elevator woes needed to be fixed. When the reporter and a photographer went to the building to investigate, the property manager ordered the

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