First Chilean Miner

13. October 2010 | 10:50

First Chilean Miner Rescued

MINE SITE, Chile - The first trapped miner in Chile has been pulled up to the surface. Crews are now working to get the other 32 out of the mine. Emotions are running high in Chile where the first trapped miner has been hoisted to safety. It’s the first time he’s seen the outside world in 2 months. CBS’ Charlie D’Agata reports from London. The first of 33 Chilean miners is finally free. Cheers … (News Source: WKRG News 5 Mobile - 07:23:31)

First Chilean miner rescued

The first of 33 miners trapped underground here for two months ascended to the surface late Tuesday night, the beginning of the end of a rescue operation that has riveted the world. (News Source: The Tuscaloosa News - 08:39:26)

First Chilean Miner Reaches Surface

Chilean miner Florencio Avalos is the first of 33 miners to reach the surface Tuesday night after spending 69 days in a cavern. (News Source: WESH 2 Orlando - 05:23:30)

First miner surfaces after 69-day ordeal in Chilean mine

This video grab shows the first miner Florencio Avalos, one of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose mine, 800 km north of the Chilean capital Santiago, is rescued successfully back to the ground on Oct. 12, 2010. The operation to lift out the 33 miners trapped for over two months in northern Chile is under way right now. (News Source: People’s Daily - 07:24:35)

2nd Chilean miner reaches surface

The second of 33 trapped Chilean miners, being placed in a capsule early Wednesday, reached surface after staying underground for 69 days. Mario Sepulveda, 39, was rescued about one hour after Florencio Avalos became the first miner to get out of the mine. (News Source: People’s Daily - 05:39:16)

First Chile miner back on surface after 10-week ordeal

Chilean miner Florencio Avalos (C in beige suit) talks with President Sebastian Pinera, seconds after coming out of the Fenix capsule after being brought to the surface on October 12, 2010 following a 10-week ordeal in the collapsed San Jose mine, near Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, Chile. (News Source: Sin Chew Jit Poh - 04:11:11)

Chilean miner rescue operation off to successful start

COPIAPO, CHILE — Miner Florencio Avalos breathed fresh air for the first time in 69 days as he was raised to freedom after being trapped underground in the San Jose Mine in Chile. (News Source: KPAX Missoula - 03:42:46)

Fifth Chilean miner, age 19, surfaces

THE fifth miner to be rescued from Chile’s collapsed San Jose mine, Jimmy Alejandro Sanchez Lagues, has reached the surface. (News Source: Daily Telegraph - 07:39:54)

First of 33 Chilean miners rescued

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile - The first two of 33 men trapped in a collapsed mine were rescued early Wednesday after 69 days underground, pulled to freedom at last in a missile-like escape capsule to the cheers of family and countrymen. (News Source: Philly.com - 07:54:12)

First Chilean Miner Surfaces To Great Cheer

Families, workers and reporters let out a great cheer as the first Chilean miner was pulled from a mine after more than two months. (News Source: KIFI Idaho Falls - 03:30:23)

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