Ben Carson got an up-close look at the infrastructure he's tasked with overseeing when he got stuck in an elevator Wednesday.

The U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was on a tour visiting affordable housing in Miami when he, Miami-Dade County Public Housing Director Michael Liu and five others were trapped in a stalled elevator. According to a Miami Herald reporter on the scene, but not in the elevator, it took about 20 minutes for firefighters to come and free them.