(29 Jul 2002)
ABC
Johnstown, Pennsylvania - 29 July, 2002
1. Miners being wheeled into news conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Doyle Unger, rescued miner:
"I'm here to thank everybody that's out there that helped us, prayed for us, and dug in for us. Not for no story, no pain, no glory, just to thank all these people from the bottom of my heart. And, I thank our lord, God almighty, too,
that's another reason, the main one why we're here."
POOL
Quecreek, Pennsylvania - 28 July, 2002
3. Miner's rescue cage being lifted out of mine
ABC
Johnstown, Pennsylvania - 29 July, 2002
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Randy Fogle, rescued miner:
"Even the job we do, that we do everyday, I mean, you have to look at it again in light of what our families went through, and that kind of stuff. You don' t think about the hazards of the job and stuff, you know, just doing it. But now, I think we've all thought about it and what everybody's went through. I don't know if too many of us will go back to what we did do."
POOL
Quecreek, Pennsylvania - 28 July, 2002
5. Miner being lifted out of cage and onto stretcher
ABC
Johnstown, Pennsylvania - 29 July, 2002
6. Wide of news conference
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Thomas Foy, rescued miner:
"I don't want to remember something like that. But I know there was a time me and my son-in-law (who was also trapped in the mine), we all got together. That was the worst part, you knew you only had a certain (amount of) time."
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Randy Fogle, rescued miner:
"It's not something that we'll forget, really. To forget something about it, to me, I don't think there's anything I want to forget about it. I mean we relied on them and we did what we were supposed to do and thank God they did what they were supposed to do and it worked."
POOL
Quecreek, Pennsylvania - 28 July, 2002
9. Miner coming up in cage
ABC
Johnstown, Pennsylvania - 29 July, 2002
10. Wide of miners at news conference
STORYLINE:
Miners, who were trapped in a Pennsylvania mine for three days, thanked the people who helped rescue them during a news conference in Johnstown on Monday.
Five of the nine men, who were trapped for 77 hours in a mine pit 240 feet underground, praised the efforts of emergency workers, who quickly pumped air into the pocket where they were trapped, and said they relied on each other to stay alive.
Rescued miner, Randy Fogle said that the group would never forget the rescue workers, but told the reporters that it was unlikely that many of the nine would go back to digging in the mines.
Thomas Foy, who was trapped with his son-in-law Blaine Mayhugh, said that the worst part of the experience was knowing they could only survive for a certain amount of time.
In a rescue that transfixed America, all nine miners were pulled safely from the Quecreek Mine in rural western Pennsylvania early on Sunday three days after water from an abandoned mine flooded the shaft where they were working.
A desperate rescue operation with tons of heavy equipment and 18 medical helicopters finally paid off when rescuers reached the miners and pulled them up a narrow shaft, one by one, in a yellow cylindrical capsule.
As each was slowly raised, one by one, through the narrow hole in a 7-foot-tall yellow cage, rescuers greeted them with applause and shouted out nicknames. At least two miners gave a thumbs up as they rose from the mine.
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